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by kdoherty
3080 days ago
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>>You can save time by learning from the mistakes of others. >Only barely. For important life decisions/paths, people only learn from their own mistakes (and often not even from those). >Heck, Computer Science as a field itself forgets its own collected wisdom every new generation hits the market, and re-invents BS that other eras have tried and buried with another fad name. Your last statement sounds like it's in favor of "learning from the mistakes of others" in that we could avoid re-inventing failed "BS" if we learned from others' mistakes. Are you saying that the idea that folks in CS re-invent work which has previously failed is evidence that it is not possible to learn from the mistakes of others? |
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No, I'm not dealing in absolutes ("not possible").
I'm merely saying that the reality that "folks in CS re-invent work which has previously failed" is supportive argument in how people in general don't learn from other's mistakes.
Of course it IS possible. It's just that it's rare.