>It sounds like designers hating on Comic Sans or programmers arguing over tabs vs spaces This, basically. I find it darkly humourous that HN's commentariat, i

>It sounds like designers hating on Comic Sans or programmers arguing over tabs vs spaces This, basically. I find it darkly humourous that HN's commentariat, in this thread and indeed whenever confronted with domain-specific jargon from non-computron fields [0], analyzes said field and finds 'obvious' problems. Have you ever tried to explain, say, 'tabs vs spaces' to some mundane? Its history, from makefiles to Python, seems uninteresting to someone peering over their iPhone N+1; "why don't you guys just decide on one? Why is this a big deal?" They can say this because 'tabs vs spaces' is a triviality -- to those who don't have to deal with the consequences of the argument. Inasmuch as HN is explicitly for interesting tidbits of info that don't necessarily have to do with hacker-style nerdery, I'd expect that we who ostensibly know so much would be able to appreciate that there are aspects of the world, and of other intellectual professions, that we don't necessarily wot of. I mean, unless, of course, one's own buzzsaw-mind is capable of intuiting and then dismissing the well-cited terms of an artisanal field that has been around for many centuries longer than has the idea of computers, but cognitive empathy is a useful practice for everyone. [0] With the exception of economics, because bike-shedding, because everyone knows about money; they spend it every day!