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From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Post by yuy910616 »

startupdiscuss wrote: post #9

Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…

It is pretty cool. When I was little I had no idea what it means, just knew that it sounds cool. But the older I get that more I see these patterns.

junior dev: python is so cool!

senior dev: python is slow. No type checking. The syntax is garbage.

John Carmack: I write a lot of python and I use it exactly for what it is good for!

Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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startupdiscuss wrote: post #9

Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…

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Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Post by anddfyf »

startupdiscuss wrote: post #9

Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…

Sounds a lot like Bruce Lees famous quote! https://mobile.twitter.com/brucelee/status/13618679498967040...

Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Post by mrtksn »

startupdiscuss wrote: post #9

Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…

There's a poplar meme called "midwit meme"[0]. I guess it's a popular observation.

[0] https://imgflip.com/i/6peco7

Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Post by sneak »

startupdiscuss wrote: post #9

Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…

Related: The Egg http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Post by focusedone »

Wow, epic!

The most depressing thing is being presented with an issue and finding my name attached to a closed ticket from years before with no explanation of how I fixed it.

Guess what, current me, you're going to learn this again from scratch because past me was in a hurry and couldn't be bothered to type out what he did.

BSG - this has all happened before, and it will all happen again.

Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Post by shadow28 »

hcks wrote: post #17

This reminds me of an old joke I heard a while back, which is that the opposite of "it's like riding a bike" is "it's like the UNIX command line". No matter how many times you do it, you will have to re-learn it every single time.

"It's like regex" could be another punchline for the joke

Re: From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Post by alpaca128 »

startupdiscuss wrote: post #9

Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…

Reminds me of how after learning how CPUs, memory, operating systems etc work I thought "wow, it really is all ones and zeroes". A simple phrase but it became more meaningful with deeper understanding.
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