System Crafters youtube channel driving me towards Emacs
I really don't get how watching a PM-type struggle with emacs for two hours at a spell is compelling or instructive. I can struggle with emacs all by myself.
I really don't get how watching a PM-type struggle with emacs for two hours at a spell is compelling or instructive. I can struggle with emacs all by myself.
Because it's a lot scarier to struggle alone. Plus as his videos progress and his knowledge progresses he frequently teaches you things that come up and practice a lot as a matter of course.
It's kind of like when you start programming you have to build up your endurance for feeling like you're always in a dark room feeling around... and you convince yourself that it won't be like this one day.
A decade or two later you realize you've become accustomed the darkness...
In case you're considering a career in software, no, the feeling of groping around in the dark never disappears.
Nice one.
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/i-think-so
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