I agree. But for a different reason: I'm shit at maths puzzles.
I just don't have the experience or tools or interest for them.
And yet, somehow, in 20 years of business geekery I've never come across a problem I can't solve.
Maybe when writing Tetris for J2ME I would have saved myself 10 minutes googling if I'd had the experience to realise that right angle based matrix translations don't require fp maths and maybe when writing financial indicators, I'd have saved myself half a day if I hadn't had to look up integrals but this sort of stuff is definitely in the minority as far as my experience goes.
I don't play Sudoku, I don't solve puzzles. I don't want to solve mathematical puzzles. I just want to deal with system and deal with security and none of them requires me to understand the tricks to solve a puzzle. Sure I can learn some cool algorithms but no thanks. I don't want to solve puzzles. Exactly.
I just don't have the experience or tools or interest for them.
And yet, somehow, in 20 years of business geekery I've never come across a problem I can't solve.
Maybe when writing Tetris for J2ME I would have saved myself 10 minutes googling if I'd had the experience to realise that right angle based matrix translations don't require fp maths and maybe when writing financial indicators, I'd have saved myself half a day if I hadn't had to look up integrals but this sort of stuff is definitely in the minority as far as my experience goes.