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reminds me of meditation 1/2
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Something I didn't realize in like 9 years of theory focused engineering school is just how much of what you need to know is basically only knowable through bug-fixing. Engineering education is 10% concepts/design/theory, and 90% bug fixing metis.
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reminds me of meditation 2/2
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Bugs also thoroughly violate your sense of proportions of value/investment. - The triviality of a bug has little correlation to how long it will take you to discover/fix it. That's entirely a function of experience. - The cost of the bug is often the value of the whole project.
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I vaguely recall this point coming up in a discussion ~10y ago with a programmer-friend who is deep into meditation stuff... the extent to which past the later, slower part of the learning curve is like bug fixing. He probably has deeper thoughts on this.
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