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I agree: whenever you find yourself saying "I don't have time to learn this advanced tool that will make my life better, I have to ship now!", you should really
by semi-extrinsic 12y ago
I agree: whenever you find yourself saying "I don't have time to learn this advanced tool that will make my life better, I have to ship now!", you should really take a moment and carefully verify that this is a good choice. (Sometimes it is a good choice though.)
In the world of science, I have colleagues who have said this for ten years wrt. LaTeX vs. Word, or even just learning EndNote vs. typing up reference lists by hand. I cringe every time I watch them spend an order of magnitude more time on pure overhead, and always getting stuff wrong, for every single paper they put out.
- erikb 12y agoThat's a really good reason: When you are unable to learn it correctly (maybe simply because it's too complicated). With the simple tool you are still not able to do all the cool stuff, but at least you can get something simple done fast.