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There's a pettiness and cruelty to this comment and those like in in this post that I don't understand. What is it about HN that consistently encourages people
by arkitaip 8y ago
There's a pettiness and cruelty to this comment and those like in in this post that I don't understand. What is it about HN that consistently encourages people to be callous to the suffering of others and defeatist in the face of challenges created by corporations?
- mnm1 8y agoIt's not callous, it's being realistic and trying to help others stay out of this miserable spot. If someone else is trying to do the same and the comment saves them months of work and thousands of dollars that would have been thrown out by Google/Apple/Amazon etc., that seems like a good thing to me. Having experienced essentially the same thing as the couple in the article and knowing it is futile to do anything about it might change your perspective too. Even they realize that at this point, their only hope is going viral. Yet an actual business analysis of where they went wrong is petty and cruel? You know what's petty and cruel? Shutting someone's account automatically using an algorithm and not allowing any human review of the situation whatsoever. That's what's petty and cruel. Trying to help people avoid this situation is anything but. It's too late for the couple in the article, but others might be wise enough to learn from this couple's (and many others') mistakes and save their time and money before opening such a risky business as app development for an app store.