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This is probably one of the biggest sins in technological teaching. Sure it is crucially important to take away the fear of a topic. But you don't do so by sayi
by atoav 3mo ago
This is probably one of the biggest sins in technological teaching. Sure it is crucially important to take away the fear of a topic. But you don't do so by saying it is simple, you do so by showing it is simple.
And it turns out sometimes you cannot show it is simple, because it is in fact very complex. But every complex topic is made up of smaller, simpler ones. Good teachers then manage to find a good order of those smaller parts that makes the steep hill climbable. Then you only need to convince people it is actually worth climbing.
- FartyMcFarter 3mo agoTrue on all counts. Not sure why you're getting downvoted.
- speedgoose 3mo agoIt’s a bit weird because it is one of the better HN comments I read in the last days.
- atoav 3mo agoThanks for the kind compliment : ) I try to ask myself whether things I write are (1) writing and (2) reading before writing. Sometimes that works.
- hilariously 3mo agoYep, I avoid saying the word simple almost entirely - its straight forward to get to the top of a mountain, it might still be incredibly arduous.
- jelder 3mo agoSimple Network Management Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Sometimes I think the RFC editors are trolling us.
- atoav 3mo agoWell. I thought so as well about LDAP. Until one day I had to interact with the kind of technology LDAP was built to replace...
- 1718627440 3mo agoSMTP is very simple, though.
- MrMorden 3mo agoEspecially since it would be compared to X.400.
- 1718627440 3mo agoSimple != easy In fact getting things to be simple can often be very hard and cumbersome.