Re: I've thought better of Linux

"Brandon J. Van Every" <mylastnameruntogether@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


> Why do people talk about getting ready to do things before doing them?
> Like prototyping is free time that doesn't take very long or something?
>

Wow, if you don't understand the benefits of actually trying out a
language before deciding to use it, I have even less confidence in you
ever producing anything other than perhaps a few glorified hello world
scripts. You have obviously never written anything with any real
complexity in it. A prototype allows you to verify both a concept and
the suitability of the platform/language before you end up spending
weeks/months/years in developing the final application. You would be
amazed at the number of apps which come unstuck after months of work
because something suddenly became apparent which wasn't when it was
all at a conceptual stage. A good prototype may take a few weeks to
do, but can save months or years of wasted effort.

> > You may have heard of two common personality types - one type has a
> > fear of failure and consequently never actually starts anything
> > because if you don't start, you can't fail. The other has a fear of
> > success, they start things, but never finish them. I'm beginning to
> > suspect you fall into one of these groups - guess which one.
>
> Would you like to go up to Marysville today and make $600 on signature
> gathering for me? Do any of you people actually have jobs and
> financial pressures apart from your Lisp habit?

Well, I guess I'm lucky. I don't have any financial pressures
anymore. I actually only work because on the whole I like to and
mostly enjoy what I do. However, at one point I had pretty much
nothing and worked in a couple of dead end jobs. However, while I was
doing those dead end jobs, I actually wrote applications, sold them
and managed to change my situation by actually producing something
which people were willing to purchase - I didn't waste weeks of time
on the Internet moaning about how nothing fits my unique situation and
that in 10 years I would be a millionaire!

It is also very apparent you have never met or known anyone who has
been successful enough to become a millionaire. I've known a few who
have started with nothing and ended up with more wealth than they ever
expected and the one thing they all have in common is that not a
single one of them had the aim to be a millionaire - in every case,
their objective was to either do something they enjoyed or to realise
an idea they had - the wealth was just a side effect.

>
> 20% of the world is real.
> 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.

Aha - now I'm beginning to understand!


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Tim Cross
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