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0 pointsstillbourne5y ago0 comments

> Autodidact.

Thanks, I didn't notice the spelling error. Honestly the reason I dropped out of high school was undiagnosed dyslexia and dysgraphia. It makes me so excited when someone is willing to show me that I spelled something wrong and then call me a fool. You know. Because ability to spell is far more important than the fact that I've forgotten more about Linux than most system administrators will ever know, or that I can program in over 10 languages and am familiar with DDD, CRQS, SOLID among other design patterns. I've mentored over 50 developers, and made Principal Engineer before I turned 35 despite my lack of credentials. I worked my way up from Help Desk to PC Support to, Network Admin, to System Admin before becoming a Software Engineer. But, nah, I'm a fool because I've misspelled a word. Thank you kind stranger for pointing out my limits, it gives me an incredible sense of frisson to know people like you are out there to keep us all in check.

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ncmncm5y ago

No criticism intended.

"Autodidactic" is the adjective, "autodidact" the corresponding noun. As you know, in English we often like to leave the noun merely implied, letting the adjective alone fill in for the noun phrase. Still, the term "autodidact" being shorter than the adjective gives it an unusual appeal. I like to imagine that readers other than yourself may welcome the suggestion.

Each of us knows a negligible part of what is known, which is itself truly negligible compared to what is yet to be known. Most of us are overwhelmed just pruning away what we thought we knew that has turned out not to be so. Don't trust anyone who is not.

My real reason for posting was to make a place to write the translation I like better.

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