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I find a short learning curve to be like an empty toolbox. I want to keep mastering more powerful tools to be ready for harder problems.
by erik_seaberg 3y ago
I find a short learning curve to be like an empty toolbox. I want to keep mastering more powerful tools to be ready for harder problems.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoFeels like a bit of a dubious assumption that hard problems need particular tools to be solved. In my experience, it is just that, experience that makes or breaks a solution.
- martinbaun 3y agoyes exactly the same. Quite often I see the most beautiful solution with the simplest tools and solutions.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoI enjoy Scheme R5RS-style minimalism as a hobby, but if a team of ten works that way we end up with ten mutually incompatible mini-frameworks, which is a lot more to learn and test than a single good one.
- pants2 3y agoOr look at it like a kitchen... Some people get every as-seen-on-TV gizmo to make caramelizing their coconuts easier, but professional chefs just need a good knife and a cast iron pan.
- wruza 3y agoThe problem with powerful tools is that they usually don’t fit between your bathtub sink and the wall. So you either just take the wrench anyway and do it the old boring way, or maniacally try to rearrange the walls to make it work, because sunken costs aren’t easy to let go.