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I find this attitude "shoot first (write code), ask questions later" as something to be admired and a bit worrisome at the same time. Nothing against people lea
by xaduha 11y ago
I find this attitude "shoot first (write code), ask questions later" as something to be admired and a bit worrisome at the same time. Nothing against people learning stuff, but why does it have to be promoted this way? Lack of humility is what gets me.
Maybe I'm just jealous or something, but it rubs me the wrong way.
- iamben 11y agoI think it's less about promotion and more about feedback. "Here's what I've built, what do you think?" We're meant to be an inclusive community of smart people. The idea is we'll encourage the poster and offer constructive criticism (or praise). If the post is useful to no one, it simply won't get discussed or upvoted. When something does, it's validated as an idea, or as something of interest.
- xaduha 11y ago"Just because you could, doesn't mean you should" - that phrase should have been applied to both writing the software and posting about it here. Plenty of mediocre stuff gets to the frontpage and plenty of gems fall through the cracks.
- Rollo_ApplyHN 11y agoPossible that I've misunderstood your comment, and while just an example, appears that Linux started out as just a side project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux Related topic, cowboy coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding