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Also, when I go in for brain surgury, I want a neurosurgeon who has learned to operate on brains by "just trying it out" and Learning from experience, rather th
by maeon3 14y ago
Also, when I go in for brain surgury, I want a neurosurgeon who has learned to operate on brains by "just trying it out" and Learning from experience, rather than one who has spent long hours painstakingly going over the routines and outcomes of past procedures, past brain surgeons, theory of brain surgury and other text books related to brain surgery.
Programmers should do the same, whatever you do, keep doing trial and error, don't look at code written by the coding legends, don't know their names, don't go over their code, don't learn from them. Just fiddle about with your own programs, if it's good enough to know, you'll find out yourself.
- Leszek 14y agoPoe's law almost caught me out here.
- randomdata 14y agoActually, I think I would much prefer a brain surgeon who has spend decades learning all the intricacies of the brain operation through hands on experience starting when they are in elementary school. I'm just not sure who would provide access to brains in the interim leading up to my surgery, in order to have the experience, due to the nature of the work. The computer, however, doesn't care how inexperienced you are. You can screw up hundreds or thousands of times and it really doesn't matter. By the time you are old enough to enter the workforce where your work does start to matter, you will have the solid grasp necessary to do the work professionally.
- rjzzleep 14y agoactually there was a brain surgeon who was doing exactly that. he was asking questions and depending on the answers different sections of the brain would activate. to make sure he wouldn't cut out the wrong part. that said edison was a douche and doesn't really fit into the comparison.