Abstraction, misinterpretations, and being a fuckin' human...

Meh... There's the one thing about programming, for the web in particular, that has always annoyed me: estimations are rarely correct.

You see... when you have some abstract thing built in your head it all makes sense, you understand it perfectly, you can visualize the whole thing easily... but then...

You have to sit for hours upon hours in a dream-like, zoned-out state (or zoned-in, depending on your perspective), typing away to make the damn computer understand it the way you do... and not only understand the abstraction of the idea, or program, the way you do... You have to be able to break it down into perfectly-logical pieces. Lots of them. Then sometimes, you see patterns in the pieces and, if you're savvy, you abstract something else to create or manipulate all of those pieces.

Then you have to make it look pretty and easy to use.

The latter, sooo simple...

The former, no so much... throw in the fact that you are a human and you make mistakes: syntax mistakes, simple typos, and just stupid logical mistakes. Sometimes you just do things in a way that, at the time, seem perfectly fine, until later you realize you should have done it differently for some reason or another. Then sometimes the damn computer interprets something differently than you'd expect.

No matter what, there's always something that doesn't go as expected. I guess that's just life. After all... Who is perfect?