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But at the same time, the feedback loop on programming is incredible. If you're wrong, you'll know right away. What I have found more frustrating is learning s
by charlie0 4y ago
But at the same time, the feedback loop on programming is incredible. If you're wrong, you'll know right away.
What I have found more frustrating is learning something with longer feedback loops. That's kept me from doing hardware.
But I agree, this doesn't compare against things where there isn't a definite right answer.
- maximus-decimus 4y agoEither you find it right away... or once it's deployed and you get asked to fix it outside work hours.
- yucky 4y ago>If you're wrong, you'll know right away. Uhhh...wouldn't that be nice.
- muzani 4y agoIt still beats getting it wrong in other forms of engineering.
- shinryuu 4y agoThe feedback loop is what got me hooked to programming. If it wasn't for that, I'm not sure what I would do. I used to do more writing, and wasn't very confident in my writing, was it any good? I wouldn't really know, no feedback whatsoever. Sometimes it would feel like you just wrote stuff and it went into a black hole. With programming it works (... or it doesn't). Of course, there are abstractions and clean ways to write a program so in the end I think my prior experience in writing has benefitted me in programming.
- croo 4y agoI disagree.The feedback loop on programming is horribly slow, at most bearable. Where are we from a feedback loop of a woodworker where when he cuts something wrong he can see it while doing the cut? I have to wait for a 2 to 30min build with end to end testing and deployment to hope that I'm right then two weeks from now a person with Opera starts using the application and proves that I was wrong.