Post #1721653
2026-04-26 15:35 UTC
Replies (3)
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@pieq@floss.social 2026-04-26 20:32
@nedbat@hachyderm.io "No, but how long did it take you?" I'll never be done learning! There's always something new to learn, either with the language itself, or with the way to design a system, or with the surrounding tooling, or with the domain you're working for. It's never ending, and that's frankly what keeps our work interesting, isn't it?
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@adriano@lile.cl 2026-04-26 23:11
@nedbat@hachyderm.io This reminded me of some words by the great Italian writer Primo Levi: “(in professional life) making a mistake wasn’t a vaguely comical misfortune, that fails you an exam or lowers your grade, anymore: getting things wrong was like when you go rock climbing, a measuring, a figuring out, a step up, that makes you more able and more apt.” (My translation, from his The Periodic System)
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@feoh@oldbytes.space 2026-04-27 14:24
@nedbat@hachyderm.io This one really resonated with me. How long it takes to learn something shouldn't matter, but in the tech job market it's a metric that's widely used and even more widely (IMO) over-emphasized. I've joked that I have a learning cliff, not a learning curve. It takes a cetain period of dedicated plodding away for something to actually "click".