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On sundays I usually get hyped reaching new heights with code. Gratified by pushing perseverance and crearivity. then I come across posts like this one and feel
by hirako2000 3y ago
On sundays I usually get hyped reaching new heights with code. Gratified by pushing perseverance and crearivity. then I come across posts like this one and feel totally powerless, having very short patience span, and too scared to even try such things.
- ASalazarMX 3y agoWhy are you on Hacker News instead of practicing your software engineering skills? -50 points for Griffindor!
- pavel_lishin 3y agoYeah, but this is kind of orthogonal to what you and I do. I felt pretty good over the past few weeks after finally starting to learn React on the side, and building something that some of my friends are going to use. Sure, it doesn't have the "whoa" factor, but it also didn't cost $2500 to build (not including the years [decades?]) spent learning.
- rvnx 3y agoIf you feel bad about yourself because of that, think of it not like something personal, it's a lot connected to the environment you are from, and some factors cannot be controlled. It's actually the ultimate sign of luxury when you have time to study, AND resources to go to a good school, AND enough free time and money to spend on gadgets, AND you can afford to throw thousands on something useless, etc. (All that said, the creation is cool and very nice work from Willem specifically)
- cortesoft 3y agoIf someone else being better at something discourages you, you are going to have a bad time in life. Very few people are going to be the best at the world at anything, but that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t change what you can do.
- hirako2000 3y agoIt isn't so much discouragement. And it's a lot more like a great painter who would listen to a pianist masterpiece, and know very well achieving that level of skill in that totally different art field would be almost impossible = time is limited, would involve giving up the mastery or continue to improve in the visual artistry. It isn't someone much better at something. It's someone much better at something entirely different yet quite related. It doesn't change what one can do that's true. Comparison with oneself is mentally healthier for sure. But humans compare themselves with who they can see, the internet gives us a view of what virtually everyone is capable of.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoYou could start by following basic tutorials and getting kits from places like adafruit. Many of them don't even require soldering. For me, starting from scratch is (too) hard because you need to figure out what components would work together, how much power you need, etc.
- KaiserPro 3y agoThe thing to do here would be to remove two dimensions first, it makes things _lot_ easier, and you can use off the self/hand made parts.