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Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by sureaboutthis on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:12AM (#19991382)
If one is spending hours upon hours on irrelevant parts, I, again, question their competence.

If one doesn't care that the carpenter building his house is using a hammer upside down, that's a whole 'nother bunch of issues I won't go into here.

Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by jacobtwotwo on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:48AM (#19992800)
I think OP's point still stands. If the job is done to the same standards (assuming same time frame as well), what other issues does this bring up?

An apt comparison might be Jimmy Hendrix playing a right-handed guitar left-handed (i.e. upside-down) and still producing master pieces.

Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by jeremysmyth on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:12AM (#20008121)
Hendrix knew his tools intimately. The comparison proves a point other than that which you make.
Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by schwurb on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:21AM (#19991485)
> If one doesn't care that the carpenter building his house is using a hammer upside down, that's a whole 'nother bunch of issues I won't go into here.

I'd love to see at least a small allusion to what nature the issues are made of. Because, to iterate, I'd rather have a well-built house build by an absolutely unconventially working carpenter than a mediocre house build by someone that knows how to use a hammer according to the textbook.

If I want to see nice processes and fantasies fulfilled, I watch movies. In real life, I care about results.

Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by sureaboutthis on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:03AM (#19992390)
You are basing your story on the competence of one who doesn't know the correct way to use his tools and can then build a house well. That's not going to happen or it will take far longer to complete.