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Middlebrow dismissals are so common on HN that we had to invent the term to talk about it. Seems to be a pattern with programmers in general. A lot of criticis
by stcredzero 7y ago
Middlebrow dismissals are so common on HN that we had to invent the term to talk about it.
Seems to be a pattern with programmers in general. A lot of criticisms of new projects seem to fit.
- oh_sigh 7y agoI agree. I tend to see the "I'm smart enough to solve any problem, even if I know nothing about it" personality trait expressed much more in software developers than I see in other people. It's one thing to have self confidence in your reasoning abilities - it's another to think that, where other very smart people have struggled with finding a certain solution, you can just drop in out of no where and cut the gordian knot.
- stcredzero 7y agoUnless, you can drop in out of nowhere and cut the Gordian Knot. If we follow the analogy of the story about Alexander the Great, maybe the pattern involves a story about someone who comes in and decides to ignore conventions or "the way it's always been done" because they have some insight from direct experience or first principles?