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I dislike that as well. It's a multifaceted coin with many things to discuss, but let's take an easy one to start. "It took me 3 minutes to run a mile." Negl

I dislike that as well. It's a multifaceted coin with many things to discuss, but let's take an easy one to start. "It took me 3 minutes to run a mile." Neglecting history, it took you three minutes to run a mile. What about all the running you've done before? What about all the healthy decisions you've made to bring your time down, all the discipline it took to stay on task and the motivation to accomplish that 3 minute mile. It took you X years (age) to run a mile in 3 minutes. Every single decision that you made in your life influenced (positively, negatively, or neutrally) your ability to run a mile in 3 minutes. That's a lot of information to hold, but it's not just the output that is important - it's the progression from input -> output that's the important and time consuming process. The difference between creating Snow Fall in 6 months and replicating Snow Fall in 1 hour is the difference in the questions asked (the input->output that brings you there). With Snow Fall, there wasn't an 'end' to know when you're done, you can't get to singletons, you have to build forward and decide when you're done. When you replicate, you start with a singleton, and you recreate that system. You have an end point, and you have the lightning bolt of all decisions, contemplations, and ponderings that created Snow Fall. What if to recreate Snow Fall, you first had to learn to use a computer. Then you had to learn to code. Then you had to learn how to browse the web. Then you had to find Snow Fall. Then you had to decide you want to recreate Snow Fall. Then you recreate Snow Fall. That might take a little bit longer than an hour. Relative to you it's an hour, relative to someone who was just born, that's years apart, and this particular problem probably won't matter in their lives. It's easy to follow the path down the mountain. It's much harder to be the first to climb the mountain.

pyre 13y ago
You're missing the point, they spent a year to create a toolkit so that you could create something like Snow Fall in about an hour. "The initial implementation took X people Y months to complete. We've labored hard to create a tool that will let you do the same thing in Z hour(s)."

pyre 13y ago

You're missing the point, they spent a year to create a toolkit so that you could create something like Snow Fall in about an hour. "The initial implementation took X people Y months to complete. We've labored hard to create a tool that will let you do the same thing in Z hour(s)."