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Most of the folks on HN haven't worked on anything more complicated than a web app.

• lawnchair_larry 10y ago
  Although that comment is unconstructive and probably wrong, I'll just point out that pretty much all of Google is a "web app".
  • RugnirViking 10y ago
    While I agree it seems the above comment was intended as a swing at HN which is not constructive or useful debate, I would suggest that as per the stack overflow developer survey web programmer was the most common job title by a very large margin (72.6%, with next closest being Desktop applications developer at 28.9%) While I would suggest that this forum demographic likely differs somewhat from stack overflow as a whole, its certainly an interesting question. Also as an anecdote, web technologies stories seem to appear disproportionately often on the front page. This would suggest at least some interest by the majority of HN
• jfoutz 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure prior versions had no software. Adding software without showing exactly what that software does seems more dangerous than trying to handle everything without explaining how it is handled. I mean, it used to work like X. Now it works like Y. Which you could inspect via the code. The reality is it works like ?. Because only god and the parent throwaway know.