>And in this industry, nobody is comfortable talking about it. If you make the assumption that HN is vaguely representative of the software industry and then l

>And in this industry, nobody is comfortable talking about it. If you make the assumption that HN is vaguely representative of the software industry and then looking at the reception that all the comments that stop short of saying "luck is the primary factor of success" are getting it seems pretty obvious why nobody talks about it.