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Re: Threaded drawing


  • Subject: Re: Threaded drawing
  • From: Jeffrey Oleander <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:05:47 -0500


On 2013 Dec 11, at 10:01, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 2013 Dec 11, at 04:39, 2551 <email@hidden> wrote:
It’s certainly seemed the case to me that I would have probably spent less time just writing my own code from scratch than I spend trying to figure out how half the methods I’m trying to use should be implemented.

That’s probably not actually true; our experience of time is pretty subjective, and time goes by faster when you’re in a "flow" state than when you're trying to figure out something new...

When a software developer is figuring out something new is exactly when he is in a flow state. Flow state requires a challenge which can be met. In this case, at some level, we're weighing trying to figure out from the cryptic docs and experiments how the frame-work works*, vs. building something that works as you think of it and as you want it to work from simpler components. Sometimes the frame-works are easier/better, and sometimes designing and developing your own is better.

* (The posted snippet from sample code was as clear as mud to me. Why powers of 4 (and -4) instead of 5 when we're talking about 5 levels of detail? 1/(2^2) - 2^2 = (1/4) - 4 means "...levelsOfDetail" should be set to 5?!?
It needs more words, more context.)

Leave comments on the docs, file radars, maybe we’ll get better documentation... some day. dum spiro spero

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