Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers

> I also take a lot of photographs, and I could use a tagging scheme that isn't tied to a do-everything program like Adobe Lightroom. That's simple enough that I could create a minimal solution in an afternoon. Having done exactly that (tagging and collating app for images), I can report that it is likely to take somewhat longer than “an afternoon.” The Programmer’s Credo: We do what we do; not because it is easy, but because we thought it…

It's funny because some of us have the opposite problem. Too many ideas, but not that much interest in learning new languages for their own sake. So when it comes down to implementing a new idea, we want it done quickly. We don't want to take the time to try to figure out how to make it in Haskell, and just revert back to Python.

i interpret those kinds of questions as "hey everyone, i learned a new thing -- look at me!", a lot like my comments on HN. the best strategy (if there's no facility for downvoting) is to ignore them, which is also a lot like my comments on HN.