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> I always found it particularly grotesque coming from the HN crowd, where an audience of mostly engineers and entrepreneurs seemed to have no problem finding i
by BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
> I always found it particularly grotesque coming from the HN crowd, where an audience of mostly engineers and entrepreneurs seemed to have no problem finding impossible problems that could never be solved and would therefore render solar useless on a large scale.
I guess your lesson here is that most people who call themselves engineers aren't by any meaningful definition. Don't expect individual creativity from a business title that usually amounts to very little creative problem solving.
- UberFly 3y agoYour crapping on engineers blast-radius is too broad here.
- cinntaile 3y agoHe's probably right that plenty engineers let politics or opinions get in the way of data, engineers are only human after all.
- BugsJustFindMe 3y agoAfter several decades of personal cross-industries experience across many fields and in many places, by percentage I bet it's extremely not.
- raverbashing 3y agoYeah. Maybe the engineers of yore (but there are some thorny stories from some SV engineers in the 70's), when to build something you really needed solid technical knowledge But nowadays whoever knows how to put together a basic webpage in ~~PHP~~ React calls themselves an "engineer" and begins having grandiose ideas No wonder they got bamboozled by Theranos, uBeam, etc