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I think you're on the wrong site if you're wanting to criticize software development as a career and suggest it does more harm than good

cambalache 7y ago
Yes, join the echo chamber or get out.
- whamlastxmas 7y ago
  It's more: offer substantiative evidence of your counter-culture claims that vilify most of your reading audience, or take your baseless negativity elsewhere
- jodrellblank 7y ago
  So which are you going to do?
catalogia 7y ago
I can't think of a better site for him to make such arguments. What's the point of such criticism if the subjects of the criticism never read it?
- whamlastxmas 7y ago
  One-off snide attacks in a comment section without any evidence or argument to back it up offers nothing of value. If you have a strong stance about the evils of software development then write something of substance and post it. I am sure it will get plenty of discussion if there's any merit to it.
  - PavlovsCat 7y ago
    > One-off snide attacks in a comment section without any evidence or argument to back it up offers nothing of value. Can you back that up? Here's the comment: > You guys really get high on your own supply don't you? It's a toss-up these days whether something from computer science or a programmer will either enhance or erode the human experience and quality of life. "getting high on your own supply" isn't such a giant insult that you can simply "make the dozen full" and claim whatever you want about the comment. > I am sure it will get plenty of discussion if there's any merit to it. Then you're sure of something that is demonstrably false, and one-off low effort sophistry like this offers nothing of value. There is no hard connection between the merit of something and HN's ability to discuss it. Take this story sticking to the top for probably over 24 hours, basically an announement to spend more time with his son, and that's it, while this got sunk off the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527622
austhrow743 7y ago
The forum of a VC firm doesn't seem antithetical to that at all. No one here is claiming that software development doesn't make fat stacks and viable businesses. It just happens to do it by perverting humanity. Moving us further away from our ideal environment.

cambalache 7y ago

Yes, join the echo chamber or get out.

whamlastxmas 7y ago
It's more: offer substantiative evidence of your counter-culture claims that vilify most of your reading audience, or take your baseless negativity elsewhere
jodrellblank 7y ago
So which are you going to do?

catalogia 7y ago

I can't think of a better site for him to make such arguments. What's the point of such criticism if the subjects of the criticism never read it?

whamlastxmas 7y ago
One-off snide attacks in a comment section without any evidence or argument to back it up offers nothing of value. If you have a strong stance about the evils of software development then write something of substance and post it. I am sure it will get plenty of discussion if there's any merit to it.
- PavlovsCat 7y ago
  > One-off snide attacks in a comment section without any evidence or argument to back it up offers nothing of value. Can you back that up? Here's the comment: > You guys really get high on your own supply don't you? It's a toss-up these days whether something from computer science or a programmer will either enhance or erode the human experience and quality of life. "getting high on your own supply" isn't such a giant insult that you can simply "make the dozen full" and claim whatever you want about the comment. > I am sure it will get plenty of discussion if there's any merit to it. Then you're sure of something that is demonstrably false, and one-off low effort sophistry like this offers nothing of value. There is no hard connection between the merit of something and HN's ability to discuss it. Take this story sticking to the top for probably over 24 hours, basically an announement to spend more time with his son, and that's it, while this got sunk off the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527622

austhrow743 7y ago

The forum of a VC firm doesn't seem antithetical to that at all. No one here is claiming that software development doesn't make fat stacks and viable businesses. It just happens to do it by perverting humanity. Moving us further away from our ideal environment.