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> The idea that "I should understand this already" is a bit silly. For me, I was doing other stuff for most of the 16 years! I strongly believe this, and they
by gumby 4y ago
> The idea that "I should understand this already" is a bit silly. For me, I was doing other stuff for most of the 16 years!
I strongly believe this, and they “you should know this already” is common and dangerous.
As an aside, indeed this is true about less abstract things. Kids learn languages well because they don’t have as many other things to do compared to adults (plus they only need to know a kid level vocabulary). I know three adults who learned English after the supposed “easy” age (14, 24, and 24). All have excellent vocabulary and two speak with the local accent.
This is true of music as well. Some people (like me) play music OK at best but well enough to have fun. Others just can’t stop thinking about it, playing (i.e. practicing) and as far as I can tell are all quite good.
I bet most or all of us feel this internally, but socially can’t believe it. It’s nice to see someone “point at the emperor”
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoYes, the whole "you should know this already" makes no sense past very basic skills because people diverge so much.
- vasco 4y agoIn my language we say "nobody is born taught / learned".
- bitlax 4y agohttps://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/ https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/
- gofreddygo 4y agoBetter title - "Things I know I don't know v2018" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
- mrkstu 4y agoThe corollary issue is remembering some issue you fixed two years ago after encountering the issue previously. I don’t write down every troubleshooting issue that comes down the pike or how to fix it on a particular platform- I’ve dealt with 6+ firewall platforms, 5+ load balancers, near infinite routing platforms- and the multitude of ways they interact makes it more important to develop heuristics rather than remember precise solutions.
- dsr_ 4y agoThough, if you had been writing them all down, you would have a useful searchable wiki or ticket system by now.
- sumtechguy 4y agoI have been messing around with computers for a couple of decades at this point. I always learn something new every few days. Also many times at this point I get to relearn something I long ago forgot because I have not used it in 15 years... I also will deep dive on a subject sometimes. Just so I know it correctly. I can then help others when they are struggling with it.
- wpm 4y agoOr you can help yourself in a few years when you forget you found an answer, and then you find a forum post that lays it all out and you read and think wow this sounds sort of familiar and then you look at the username and …oh, I wrote this! Such a fun little feeling, like time travel almost.
- avgcorrection 4y agoI haven’t gotten to that point yet, but I did find a StackExchange answer to a problem I was having and was wondering if that specific solution would work on my platform. And then I (from the past) pointed out in a comment how to make it work on my platform.
- sumtechguy 4y agoFor the sort of things I do there are usually already hundreds of posts out there for that thing. I am not that original. For anything that I keep forgetting and keep having to dig out of some stackexchange post I put it in something like onenote. I have not done anything that would be considered ground breaking in 15 years. And even with that, the field has moved on considerably since then. My insights would be more interesting tidbits of my personal history than helping.
- avgcorrection 4y ago> Kids learn languages well because they don’t have as many other things to do compared to adults That’s not how it works at all.