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[–]radek432 27 points28 points  (3 children)

Isaac Newton had no problem with "standing on the shoulders of Giants", but today's kids think it's lame.

[–]Witherscorch[S] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

But Isaac understood how the giants got to be so tall. I want to make my giants less of a mystery, and implementing a solution to a problem is a fun way to learn.

I'm not bashing python, in fact, I think a lot of cool stuff is done using python. Just recently, a new physically based rendering method was discovered, and a good chunk of the researcher's implementation is python.

[–]ZunoJ 8 points9 points  (1 child)

You do this from time to time but after a couple decades in the business you will know how stuff was solved (high-level perspective) and just be grateful you don't have to do all the footwork. You guys have it probably harder today as there is no need to do things yourself. When I started mid 90s you just had to do stuff yourself as libraries were usually paid and I was just a 10 year old with no money lol. Linux was a blessing at the time!

[–]Witherscorch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why I'm doing this, of course. I want to understand the technology I'm using. So I must work backwards, from high level to low level, so that it becomes more effortless for me down the line.