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I really hate when fellow devs say things are "simple" like Casey Muratori said in the first place. Nothing is simple in the software (and hardware) world! If s
by j_barbossa 4y ago
I really hate when fellow devs say things are "simple" like Casey Muratori said in the first place. Nothing is simple in the software (and hardware) world! If something seems simple then most likely because smart people have written libraries for you that abstract the hard part away.
It also shows a certain arrogance to call a topic "simple", because it is supposed to show the audience that you are an incredible expert in the field.
- sussmannbaka 4y agothe solution to the problem is simple and thus widely used in prior art. the person in question has written such a library (well, a reference implementation). the person in question is an expert in the field.
- deelly 4y agoAgree. Sometime I really struggle to see a difference between Reddit and HN.
- bena 4y agoHN doesn't have sub-reddits
- gimme_treefiddy 4y agoMaybe I’m nitpicking since it’s OSS, but sometimes it’s not even the code. From the outside it seems like a few lines of code but internally there’s a whole org and OKRs and what not.