Once the Unknowns Are Known

Description

A two-panel Avatar: The Last Airbender meme shows Aang standing by a staff in a bright outdoor scene. In the first panel he looks worried, with white caption text reading: "ALL I HAVE TO DO IS FIGURE OUT WHAT I HAVE TO DO,". In the second panel he smiles confidently, and the caption continues: "BUT ONCE I DO THAT, NO PROBLEM." The software-engineering angle is the familiar gap between solving the actual implementation and first discovering the real task, constraints, dependencies, and failure modes.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The hard part is turning "figure it out" into a bounded DAG; after that it is merely typing until the hidden nodes appear.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The hard part is turning "figure it out" into a bounded DAG; after that it is merely typing until the hidden nodes appear.
@callofvoid0 4y

exactly most of the time for coding is thinking about the structure of what you are going to do
1. @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  Especially when writing in Prolog or any other language where each line of code is an essence of thorough thought.