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When I'm working, I'm looking stuff up all the time. And, everyone I've ever paired with has been looking stuff up on a constant basis. It's not that I'm crap,
by WalterSear 13y ago
When I'm working, I'm looking stuff up all the time. And, everyone I've ever paired with has been looking stuff up on a constant basis.
It's not that I'm crap, it's that the tools I'm using are always changing. HTML -> CSS? Sure, I won't look that up. CSS -> SASS? Sure, I probably won't look that up. Ask me to use LESS, I'll be on much looser footing. And, what's coming next? Do I have to have the new ES6 specifications memorized? I don't, though I've used those 100 times already, in the past weeks.
Hell, I still look up git commands.
- jaegerpicker 13y agoI never ever hold it against someone if they say they need to look something up. No one should nor can memorize all the things we developers need to remember.
- michaelwww 13y ago“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein
- WalterSear 13y agoWhich, today, almost means never memorize anything.
- michaelwww 13y agoIt'd be interesting why Einstein said this. I'm guessing because it takes time and effort to memorize something, not because he thought the brain had finite memory capacity.