If this isn't brogrammer wisdom, I don't know what is.
Putting Money In The Bank
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#12I get the depositing analogy, but how is he withdrawing anything when he competes? Competing is just training with more incentive. If anything, he's much better/stronger after having performed at a competition than before. After resting for a week or so, of course.
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#13If this isn't brogrammer wisdom, I don't know what is.
Yeah, because having an interest in anything athletic-related makes you a brogrammer.
Groan
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#14I get the depositing analogy, but how is he withdrawing anything when he competes? Competing is just training with more incentive. If anything, he's much better/stronger after having performed at a competition than before. After resting for a week or so, of course.
This is a remarkably pedantic sentiment. Competing is not "just training with more incentive". Competition is the thing you train for. The differences psychologically are so obvious that they're not really worth enumerating.
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#15Stackin bricks.
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#16I suggest a better lesson to learn is to not join competitions in which the difference between a winner and a loser is measured in ridiculously small numbers.
Indeed. In many disciplines we would actually need multiple runs to find out who is best with some statistical significance.
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#17If this isn't brogrammer wisdom, I don't know what is.
Yeah, because having an interest in anything athletic-related makes you a brogrammer. Groan
I think heyrhett's was trying to say that article does not teach its readers anything new about the world. You could sum it up as "practice makes perfect".
From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was thinking about this the other day. 99% of people don't even realize you can start a software company. 99% of the people that do know you can don't even try. 99% of the people that do try give up to early, change their mind, don't get committed etc. Just being in that final 1% is no guarantee of success, but it sure as hell is ahead of the other guys.
Unless of course you're not suited for it, and you lose out due to the opportunity costs of all the money you could have been making as a salaried employee elsewhere in the time you were barely getting by with a startup.
Only if you measure success as the amount you make.
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#19I get the depositing analogy, but how is he withdrawing anything when he competes? Competing is just training with more incentive. If anything, he's much better/stronger after having performed at a competition than before. After resting for a week or so, of course.
Yeah, the withdrawing part of the analogy was weak. He had as much in the bank as he always did. In terms of physical fitness and ability, you only 'withdraw' when you stop practicing and let yourself go. I don't see a competition as doing that at all.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, because having an interest in anything athletic-related makes you a brogrammer. Groan
I think heyrhett's was trying to say that article does not teach its readers anything new about the world. You could sum it up as "practice makes perfect". From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
One of my lads teachers has being saying "practice makes perfect" and he's repeating it ... i counter that it's not true, it "makes better".
A counter idiom is "excellence is good enough".
Striving for perfection can be destructive.