Stuck due to “knowing too much”
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Stuck due to “knowing too much”
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Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#2I submitted it because it's exactly how I feel lately, and would like to know what others think about it. My current (personal/academic) project involves Node.js, (Iced)CoffeeScript, MongoDB (with Mangoose), PhantomJS, Mocha, Neo4j, Nutch, Solr, Hadoop and Mahout.
All of them are new technologies and are changing rapidly and daily, and I find new stuff every day that forces me to change my APIs and the way I do things, and it's getting frustrating... It's the price you pay by using cutting-edge technologies and I accept that, but I can't help thinking that maybe Java+MySQL was a better/easier choice!
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#3Solution: Don't be purfect. Drop your fears. Enjoy yourself.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#4Don't let "perfect" be the enemy of "good enough".
A flawed-but-functional system that ships is empirically better than a perfect system that never ships.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#5Don't let "perfect" be the enemy of "good enough". A flawed-but-functional system that ships is empirically better than a perfect system that never ships.
See: Linux vs GNU Hurd
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#6this is easier said than done, but the key to avoiding analysis paralysis is to worry about building the right abstractions and only that. if the software is abstracted well -- ie it correctly represents the underlying problem at an adequate resolution -- then it becomes easy to say YAGNI in the short run with the confidence that refactoring or adding functionality will be straight forward later.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#7The moderation on programmers.stackexchange.com is completely overbearing. How can a question about analysis paralysis be closed for off-topic? If stackoverflow is for technical question/answer, what is the point the linked stackexchange if not for discussion of a common programmer problem like this? I see stuff like this closed all time time and it's really annoying.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#8The moderation on programmers.stackexchange.com is completely overbearing. How can a question about analysis paralysis be closed for off-topic? If stackoverflow is for technical question/answer, what is the point the linked stackexchange if not for discussion of a common programmer problem like this? I see stuff like this closed all time time and it's really annoying.
Agreed. If any StackExchange people read this please do something about this.
It's a great site that fills a necessary niche but the moderation is killing it!
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#9This is a real thing for sure. The first 80% of a project is the fun/creative part. The last 20% is painful and usually where you make a product out of a project. Experienced developers know that starting a project means that ultimately you will have to do that 20% and they question whether it's worth the investment (before starting the fun part). New developers are usually blissfully ignorant and simply enjoy the first 80%. Some of them will take it beyond that... most will leave it as nothing more than an unfinished project.
The fondness of directing others is really just the enjoyment of not dealing with the minutia of developing a robust solution.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#10I submitted it because it's exactly how I feel lately, and would like to know what others think about it. My current (personal/academic) project involves Node.js, (Iced)CoffeeScript, MongoDB (with Mangoose), PhantomJS, Mocha, Neo4j, Nutch, Solr, Hadoop and Mahout. All of them are new technologies and are changing rapidly and daily, and I find new stuff every day that forces me to change my APIs and the way I do thing…
I suffer from the same trouble on occasions. I primarily deal with the Microsoft ecosystem which is volatile and fragmented at the best of times.
I would kill to do something in good old java/mysql.
A lot of the new ideas and principles are a mess. Don't get too absorbed - just use what lets you get the job done quickly and efficiently. a lot of it is just noise.
I tend to find that a complete break from everything for a day helps. That and cider :)