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by xbmcuser 94 days ago
In the last few years I have come to realize that first impression of anything is extremely important if your first few uses were good and wowed you you will be positive about it. If it was not you will be negative about it the bias of the first encounter stays with us no matter what.
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Hence beginner's luck.

Most long-term gamblers will tell you that the first games they played, they won. This is a real thing, yet we cannot apply it by making one bet and then stopping, because so are the probabilities being fair and un-biased.

What squares these two things is that most of the people who played and lost their first games, did not get addicted to gambling.

Dont know about that, I dont think I had any superb first experience with it but even if I had, I got more turned on to it when I started using it for toy program/code solutions I needed on a one-off basis occasionally. If it didnt give me the code I needed to get various things done on the fly, I would maybe be more agnostic.

On non-code stuff, I think its improved or there are better options for making it get to the point and be concise more and I find when I correct it, quite often we actually get somewhere. The answers I remember from my initial use of it ofbasically how to do anything or most subjects was practically a 10 pager with some weird action plan that you were never gonna go thru.