passive_fist comments on Programming-like activities? - Less Wrong
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I guess the major difference would be that dating doesn't give you rapid feedback.
It does if you interpret James's comment to mean interactions with romantic intent.
Dating a single person for a long time is akin to managing a team of developers (sure, you don't get quick feedback) and chatting to someone you don't know in a book store is like quickly compiling something in a new language.
That... definitely explains my failure at "dating a single person for a long time" and my (relative) success at "chatting to someone you don't know".
Well, it might not really count as useful feedback if you just get a segmentation fault without any explanation what went wrong.