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> And the cost of any mistake is in actual real money That's the same in software engineering. You are losing your own time. If you are just breaking your prot
by allendoerfer 5y ago
> And the cost of any mistake is in actual real money
That's the same in software engineering. You are losing your own time. If you are just breaking your prototypes and not the machines to build them, your time lost is probably multiple times more valuable than the material.
I guess, once you have billed a certain number of hours to clients, the relation between time and money just ingrains itself so deep inside your mind, that you might as well start telling the time in USD.
- alexb_ 5y agoThis is true, but it gets worse with hardware - it's not like your code fries itself because you forgot a character.
- richardfey 5y agoBut your customer's data can, with equally destructive results.
- grishka 5y agoThat's when you're working for money. If it's your own project, your mistakes cost you nothing but you learn something from every one of them.
- allendoerfer 5y ago> That's when you're working for money. Don't you still work for time? If you have achieved something, you can do it again or something similar you might enjoy. Unless what you are doing is completely directionless and you are basically just randomly soldering stuff together, I would say there is still esentially the same loss function as with money. I give you that the abstraction often makes you feel less pressure in the moment itself. But in the end it is really just an abstraction. Money is just a virtually constructed number we use to control people's time. > If it's your own project, your mistakes cost you nothing but you learn something from every one of them. You also learn form professional mistakes.