Practice enough
Go deep enough into an industry and you'll find the pain
Then you can use your talent to help solve it
That's where achievement and a sense of value come from
Given time
I'll write software libraries people actually use
like an npm package
One piece of a larger solution
More elegant / more efficient / simpler ways
to solve problems people hit all the time
That's real proof of software-engineering craft
Software engineering chases generality, elegance, universality, ease of use
Algorithm engineering doesn't chase elegance or standardization
The two mindsets diverge
The latter will invent any wild wheel that works
without much thought for later extensibility or maintenance
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Practice enough
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Practice enough
Go deep enough into an industry and you'll find the pain
Then you can use your talent to help solve it
That's where achievement and a sense of value come from
Given time
I'll write software libraries people actually use
like an npm package
One piece of a larger solution
More elegant / more efficient / simpler ways
to solve problems people hit all the time
That's real proof of software-engineering craft
Software engineering chases generality, elegance, universality, ease of use
Algorithm engineering doesn't chase elegance or standardization
The two mindsets diverge
The latter will invent any wild wheel that works
without much thought for later extensibility or maintenance
Go deep enough into an industry and you'll find the pain
Then you can use your talent to help solve it
That's where achievement and a sense of value come from
Given time
I'll write software libraries people actually use
like an npm package
One piece of a larger solution
More elegant / more efficient / simpler ways
to solve problems people hit all the time
That's real proof of software-engineering craft
Software engineering chases generality, elegance, universality, ease of use
Algorithm engineering doesn't chase elegance or standardization
The two mindsets diverge
The latter will invent any wild wheel that works
without much thought for later extensibility or maintenance