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it's like the joke about the plumber who just whacks a pipe with a hammer to fix a clog and charges $200. the client protests, saying he should only charge $5 f
by sterlind 5y ago
it's like the joke about the plumber who just whacks a pipe with a hammer to fix a clog and charges $200. the client protests, saying he should only charge $5 for such a simple fix. the plumber itemizes the bill - $5 for hitting the pipe, $195 for knowing where to hit it.
I think doctors have to cram so much in because they need to have all that knowledge available to pick up what to google.
- xtracto 5y agoThis actually also happens I our (tech) field: Several years ago I was working with 2 other very smart developers. We were the tech team in a small startup, in charge of keeping the systems running. One of the 2 guys and I had quite some experience with "real life" systems in general. The other guy, really smart but his experience was in competitive programming (leetcode like things, super complex algorithms, etc). At some point something broke in production. While looking at the first logs, the algorithms guy gave his diagnostic... but the other guy and I knew it couldn't be such thing due to some very subtle things in the error that was happening. That kind of experience makes the difference of the time it takes to find the root of a problem.