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Great quote. Sums it up just right.

• zokier 13y ago
  What is important to note in these kind of scenarios is that in most cases the "signal level" does not decrease. So the increase of "noise" is not that bad of a thing, it is usually quite trivial to filter out, and there is always something/someone useful popping out from the noise too. In general I detest the kind of attitude you represented in your parent comment, eg people shouldn't doing something they enjoy just because it doesn't meet your standards.
  • csmuk 13y ago
    Actually that's a pretty large misinterpretation of what I said. Conclusively: People should still do this, but stop turning it into a cultural movement in which everything unremarkable is remarkable and knowledge is abstracted away into insignificance. The knowledge is infinitely more important than the abstraction as the abstractions come and go. For an extreme example: When playing around with electricity that knowledge and those fundamentals can and do make the difference between life and death. Some maker contraptions that I've seen that flash lights connected to the mains are so dangerous it's unreal.
    • HeyLaughingBoy 13y ago
      Thank you for making me feel less curmudgeonly! I've thought the same thing for the longest while. I love that people of all ages are starting to learn about electronics & firmware. At the same time, the desire to build something sophisticated has people skipping large steps and as a result, build insanely complicated systems that a little knowledge would let them do in a much simpler fashion. They're learning, but with enormous gaps in knowledge.