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I have a big collection of “why don’t they just” comments from HN. It’s pretty amusing to look at them in aggregate.

• dgellow 5y ago
  Would you mind sharing it?
  • johnwalkr 5y ago
    Maybe someday. I wouldn’t want to share it without finding time to write a few paragraphs. This community is really great and I don’t want to criticize without context. HN also over-represents one engineering discipline and one region. I don’t know how to summarize my feelings, but I work in aerospace, primarily in hardware, in Asia, often as a manager. I see a lot of comments that simplify and often criticize those topics based on the simplification. I’ve also said “just do this” to software engineers so I want to emphasize that this is not a dig at certain types of engineers or people but maybe most of us can do better at recognizing where our expertise starts and stops.
• Brave-Steak 5y ago