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I'm running into more people that are proud to know nothing deeply. "Why bother? I know how to search on Google! I can learn!" I'm glad this article doesn't buy

by taopao 13y ago

I'm running into more people that are proud to know nothing deeply. "Why bother? I know how to search on Google! I can learn!" I'm glad this article doesn't buy into it. Sure, the knowledge is out there and you can acquire it over time, but without having internalized that knowledge and given time for strong intuition to develop, you're not going to be nearly as effective.

mitchty 13y ago
I guess one counterpoint would be Alfred Einstein and him famously not knowing his own phone number. He stated why would I waste brain cells on something that is alphabetically sorted in a book? I agree you need to know things like how malloc() works, how a function (lets say c) is allocated on the stack into frames, etc.... Just wanted to throw that out there. I love not knowing everything, but that has come after many years of learning what I don't need to memorize/internalize.