I wasn't creating a new search engine, I was doing a one-off scraping job in my spare time. Creating a fully distributed solution would have been total overkill

I wasn't creating a new search engine, I was doing a one-off scraping job in my spare time. Creating a fully distributed solution would have been total overkill. But threading could and would have helped. Honestly, stupidly hostile and ignorant comments like this are the absolute worst thing about Hacker News.