In general I agree that execution is more than "just" half the battle. There's exceptions though, especially on the audience of HN, which includes a lot of know

In general I agree that execution is more than "just" half the battle. There's exceptions though, especially on the audience of HN, which includes a lot of knowledge workers. For us, it often comes to "I spent 2 weeks investigating this issue, and at the end it was fixed by changing one line of code". In this case execution was trivial, but knowing what to execute was the 99% part.