Can LehmannLove that moment when you realize that the literature review you did a year ago is mostly useless because you got just so slightly side tracked by a series of problems adjacent to, but somewhat distinct from the original research focus...
Also love that I am the type of person who rather than looking at existing solutions to a problem invents their own solution. So now I've got to retroactively look through and see which parts are just (worse) reinventions of existing things and which parts are actually novel.
Ethan Black@CanLehmann I feel like I've wasted a bunch of time trying to invent things without even *checking* whether or not they exist already. I should check first before developing, then I can focus on developing things which are new from the start.
@golemwire To some extent I agree. Though I've also frequently made the experience that it is faster to just reinvent things. The "best" path is probably somewhere in between, i.e. getting a high-level idea by reading literature and then filling in all remaining gaps by logical deduction.
@CanLehmann Sometimes learning an API is slower than writing the parts of the code you actually need... reminds me of one time when I was (I forget exactly what but) shifting a variable to send its value bit by bit over a pin, and someone told me to use some library function instead. But it was such a simple thing to do, it was simpler to just write it myself.
So like that I suppose.
So like that I suppose.