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Describing some project with phrases such as "built with love" or "from the ground up" really make me cringe.
by shiz 10y ago
Describing some project with phrases such as "built with love" or "from the ground up" really make me cringe.
- PercussusVII 10y agoWhat gets me is the <in {languageX}> like that gives it more credibility to be trendy.
- alex95 10y agoBut hey, at least it was built with LOVE!
- pavlov 10y agoAlso, when startups start the description of their generic SaaS tool with the word "beautiful". It usually seems to mean: "The app doesn't do very much yet, so we had room for plenty of UI whitespace and 18px fonts."
- aldanor 10y agoI concur. Yet to see any "Built with hate" projects. Like "Built with hate in Perl!"
- jm547ster 10y agoPerl, the choice for the self-loathing hacker
- collyw 10y agoI like working with Perl. Admittedly its easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it.
- lake99 10y agoI have done some work in Java and Javascript. It was all done with hate. If there was any love there, it was for the paychecks I got at the end of each month.
- collyw 10y agoYou should try working with Salesforce. That makes JavaScript seem like a pleasant experience.
- fbonetti 10y agoAt the last company I worked for, we used Salesforce as our database and source of truth in one of our web applications. It was exactly as horrible as it sounds :)
- wrigby 10y agoI've been there, and I feel your pain. My boss wanted to use it as the source of truth for one of our monitoring systems. It was... ugly.
- philh 10y ago"This project was built for revenge, over a three-day sleepless marathon fueled by my hatred." "Cool, so what does it do?" "It prints Jacob is a loser nerd in large ASCII art characters, over and over again." "..." "The message is hard-coded for now, but I'm planning to make it customizable next time I get angry at someone."
- monknomo 10y agoThe polite term is "enterprise"
- panglott 10y agoIf it's "Built from the top down" it might be "with hate!"
- bechampion 10y agothey make me cringe too , but i often question myself if feeling this way is my own fault. What is wrong with loving code or loving a little project? Do we all wanna be seen as hardcore devs that do this work cause we are forced to? I'm not attacking just a question I'd like to pop out there.
- themartorana 10y agoYeah this is the thing. Especially for projects built in off-time, this feels like people expressing "I code for others for money, but this I gave up my time for because it makes me happy." It's pride in work. Nothing wrong with that.
- sotojuan 10y agoI thought it was cringey because the phrase is overused[1] and sort of a joke by now? I would never cringe at someone loving to program for fun. [1] I've seen too many website footers that say "Handcrafted with love in (San Francisco | New York | Portland)".
- wang_li 10y agoAs an advertising statement -- "built with love" -- means nothing to me as a consumer. If there is nothing more interesting to tell me in that space, then it suggests there is some kind of lack in the product. All I care about is the value, quality and cost of the product.
- cupantae 10y agoIt is very cringey though. It's no real indication of how much love went into it, and just comes across as an attempt to stand out and appeal to hipster impulses.
- puissance 10y ago:-) Aren't you bikeshedding? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403557
- collyw 10y agoThe app I am maintain says Built with Love in Stockholm. Must have been some sort of masochistic love.
- p333347 10y agoAs someone who doesn't know or use python but just knows about it, I thought love was some kind of a python framework as frameworks tend to have weird names.
- icebraining 10y agoNah, that's for Lua :) https://love2d.org/ https://love2d.org/
- dr_zoidberg 10y agoOrganic, 100% fluten free, home-grown Python!