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Seriously HN? So now a casual 88-word status post is number 16 on the list? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this list for _hacks_? What is this? Andrew mop

• xd 15y ago
  I voted you up. Not sure why you are being voted down as you've made a valid point. I found many of the replies awful, for instance one guy states: "Our children will laugh and wonder how we got anything done with the primitive tools at our disposal." There are far to many people out there that want to be developers, mechanics, artists, musicians etc etc but give up at the first hurdle and look for something to blame for their failure .. it's a very common human trait and not one I expected to see entertained on HN, either.
  • enneff 15y ago
    I think it's reasonable for my post to be the subject of discussion. As evidenced by the discussion here, there are many views on the subject. As for that specific comment, I don't know that I agree with it or that you are taking it in the right spirit. It seems to me a light-hearted take on the fact that things that seemed advanced to us 30 years ago seem primitive to us now, and that our descendants might feel the same way in another 30 years. Again, that's not my point, merely a more charitable reading of that comment. The point of my post was not to blame any of my tools for anything. It was an observation that we shouldn't praise ourselves for mastering the minutiae of environments that suck. We should recognize design failings and try to build better tools. I've personally had great success writing software in JavaScript, among other languages, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.