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This isn't directed solely at you, but it's extremely annoying to hear someone make a great argument for something, only to hear someone else put them down by s
by whack 10y ago
This isn't directed solely at you, but it's extremely annoying to hear someone make a great argument for something, only to hear someone else put them down by saying something like "But it's so obvious! Why are you wasting your time and mine by writing this?"
Just because it's obvious to you, doesn't mean it's obvious to everyone else.
Just because it's obvious to you, doesn't mean it's not worth talking about.
In this case, I've seen plenty of startups postpone hiring any admins until 15-20+ headcount, in the interests of cutting costs to the bone and being scrappy. Clearly to these people, the author's recommendation is not obvious at all.
If you think that someone's advice is bad and want to call them out on it, go ahead. If you think that someone's advice is so obvious that it's not useful, then just ignore them or downvote them. But telling someone on a message board to shut up because you agree with everything they said, just comes across as both rude and not useful in any way.
- atemerev 10y agoBut I was not telling anyone to shut up. I just been telling "a great idea, and quite obvious first thing to do — why it is controversial?" In no way it follows from my words that this post is redundant or should not be posted; in fact, I upvoted it. Some (perhaps most) good ideas are obvious. Still worth repeating them.
- whack 10y agoSorry if I misinterpreted your post. Glad to hear that we're on the same page.
- reflexive 10y agoActually you didn't say "why is it controversial" - you said "where is the controversy", implying that it isn't controversial at all.
- atemerev 10y agoFor me, it wasn't. But, as other fellow HN users have already enlightened me, apparently there exists some cult of heroic founders who sleep for 2 hours per day and doing everything themselves. I wouldn't invest in that.