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>Why is there always this pushback against "popsci explanations" in these threads? because underneath all of the rhetoric about entrepreneurialism and "disrupt
by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>Why is there always this pushback against "popsci explanations" in these threads?
because underneath all of the rhetoric about entrepreneurialism and "disrupting" thing tech (and by extension HN) is one of the most conservative and elitest communities that has ever existed. think about what people used to say about dynamic languages vs statically typed, about frontend vs backend, about sql vs nosql, etc etc etc. stodgy old engineers have always (and will always) resist the bar being lowered and newcomers being admitted.
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what's funny is that the opposite response shows up, invariably, on posts that are very precise and technical. i.e. something like "this is too technical i wish mathematicians would accommodate us lay folk".
- zaptheimpaler 5y ago> stodgy old engineers have always (and will always) resist the bar being lowered and newcomers being admitted. I try not be elitist or unwelcoming to newcomers, but yeah uh why should we lower the bar? Are the newcomers somehow incapable of learning engineering at the same level that the old ones did? Its no fun to work with people who aren't as motivated and cry for a lower bar instead of rising to the challenge. Its easy to work with someone more motivated than you but it sucks to work with someone less motivated.