jdbartee's comments

I interpreted <<double up arrow>> to mean the correct solution was “way higher” than my guess, not that my guess was “way higher”.

The wording is potentially confusing, though.

Good luck checking out the stitching on Amazon. Even if you can see it in a picture, the item in the picture might not be the one you’re getting.

And good luck finding “no brand” options in a Brick and Mortar store.

Speaking for myself, the first form is more natural- even if it’s a useless cat, because I’m always cat-ing files to see their structure. Then progressively tacking on different transforms. And then finally putting it in whatever I want as output.

It’s so ingrained, I’m more likely than not to just write it out that way even when I know exactly what I’m doing from the onset.

A lot of my side projects end up being:

“I want to learn how to do X, but I have no idea what that’s going to take.”

And I end up just coding a logical step and if I don’t know what to do go research it, realize I did something wrong 3 steps ago and then either revert or abandon depending on my current motivation.

I’ve tried before to create a “game plan” before but most of the time there’s so much that I don’t know that I don’t know that it’s either impossible to make that plan or once I do, that plan ends up being wrong anyways.

As such it always feels like I’m doing side projects wrong. But since they’re more learning endeavors more than actually trying to launch a product maybe that’s fine?