- What's inside a modern golfball. I've learned this lesson the hard way 2 or 3 times now, and every time it's been the same. Oh and I've never actually needed the information.
- Telnet. Now with the prevalence of http and html I will never ever need to know the divine intricacies of telnet. However it did teach me about IP addresses, which springboarded my knowledge of the internet, ethernet and networking as a whole.
- FTP commands. It taught me UNIX commands as well, but I just don't use command-line FTP anymore. With all these great programs like CuteFTP and FileZilla, I don't have to Telnet into a server in Toronto in order to access FTP in order to get a demo disk for a new game which then takes all night to download and doesn't actually work because of noise on the phone line. Things just don't work that way anymore.
- AT commands. Modems are automated pieces of separate hardware now. They have their own brains and don't need me to post commands to it manually. In retrospect it was a waste of time to learn these commands.
- QBASIC. I will cherish those years I spent learning the logic behind programming, even if it was only BASIC that I learned. It's taught me many things about programming, ranging from program flow, inheritance, and sub-routines, to global constants, run time variables, and type structures (which started me on the path towards more and more object oriented programming, just like everyone else). unfortunately I now have little use for QBASIC but I don't really regret learning it either since it did start me on course for other languages.
- how to shave my legs. I've needed this skill only twice in my life and both times were for a sleep study.
- how to darn a sock. I know how but that doesn't mean I do it.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Ever regret something you learned?
I've tried to mold myself into a modern renaissance man, trying to learn enough about everything to hold a conversation for longer than "Oh, you do that? cool." I want to know it all, but I know I can't. Now here's a small list of the stuff I've learned (most of the time the hard way), but never really needed.
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