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Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament |
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:58:06 +0100 |
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Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
> 2009/11/27 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> I have what amounts to severe attention disorder syndrome. I can't
>> focus on easy tasks. I can only work effectively on hard or
>> impossible things, mostly until 95% are done. When learning or
>> practicing an instrument, the successful way for me was to take on
>> things that were 10 times my level. I could work on those. And
>> after a lot of time, they were just 2 times my level, and I could
>> take on new challenges because I was not progressing any more.
>
> This regime may be good for your well-being and mind health, but do
> you think seriously it is good for a collaborative effort like
> LilyPond? From your literal words, are you aware that it may cause
> unresolved bugs that nobody except you could fix?
Mastery means finding the most straightforward solution, not the hardest
one. Sometimes that involves encapsulating a small piece of
_inherently_ complex functionality, in order to make the rest of the
task easier.
For example, take scheme continuations: they are universal enough that
you can do almost any control structure with them. But if you use them,
it is almost always prudent to first _design_ a much less universal
control structure that one can actually understand more intuitively, and
use _that_ for implementing your problem.
I don't play complex pieces beyond the edge of my mastery in public. I
play those that have become accessible to me. Even if they only became
accessible in the course of spending time and effort failing on harder
ones.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, (continued)
Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, Marc Hohl, 2009/11/27
Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, Graham Percival, 2009/11/26
- Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, David Kastrup, 2009/11/26
- Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, Graham Percival, 2009/11/26
- Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, David Kastrup, 2009/11/26
- Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, Chris Snyder, 2009/11/30
- Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, Valentin Villenave, 2009/11/30
- Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, Chris Snyder, 2009/11/30
Re: [frogs] Frog's Lament, Marc Hohl, 2009/11/27