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I propose that it is only your unfamiliarity with structural engineering that makes you feel that anyone can be great at it. It takes a very skilled eye to recognize really excellent software development only by running the completed program, and probably an equally skilled eye to distinguish one curtain-wall tower from another just by walking past it.
You notice bad structural engineering when something falls down or blows up, which may take a human lifetime. You notice the quality of structural engineering when actually building the structure, when you either do or do not have to improvise patches to weaknesses in the design. I'm not sure anyone but a builder can recognize really marvelous structural engineering.
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Probably.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Ah, a shorter version might be...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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I love the way you expressed this. Yes, there's a search for elegance and beauty in low level coding that is second only to the search for the most elegant of mathematical proofs. Engineers can find it, they need a certain attachment to symbolic meandering, but also there's that quality that is the cherry on top for being a genius, the inner poet. Such a level of creativity ultimately caters to the performance boost and efficiency of ever lesser waste of clock cycles, but it also delights learned individuals.
We should all take a page from The Story of Mel [^].
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I consider myself an excellent SQL coder. At least I used to be.
But I owe all but the basics to a person I've never met. A true master.
I inherited his code when he left the job. His code taught me things I never would have seen in or out of a classroom. I'm certain he was younger than me, based on the descriptions others gave of him.
I thank my lucky stars I got that lesson.
I'm not sure we can assess our own top level without seeing something and wishing we had written it.
Or perhaps even then.
Then there's the DunningβKruger effect. And the sciolists of the world. Who among us hasn't seen those?
Yet I think the person experiencing it doesn't know it.
When I was a kid, someone stuck me in a choir. After a bit of time the choir director told me not to sing the words but to just move my lips. A monotone.
Yet now I sing well, according to others. Probably I just had to grow into my voice. But I never pursued music after that.
The last is just food for thought.
Good subject for rumination.
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Knew where it was but couldn't recall name so had to look, doh
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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#Worldle #257 1/6 (100%)
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The progression in this is mesmerizing
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Of course, The Griff steals it, yet once again!
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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