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In this thread: People who don't understand that excel is just a tool, which is useful but has flaws, arguing with people who don't understand that experts car
by bdjsiqoocwk 3y ago
In this thread:
People who don't understand that excel is just a tool, which is useful but has flaws, arguing with people who don't understand that experts care about solutions not the tools, in which case it might be ok to compromise something unimportant, like the _name_ of something.
What these two sides have in common is the contempt for the actual experts for not building a tool that HN could build but wouldn't know how to use.
Peak HN.
- knighthack 3y agoIn this thread: guy pretends to think he's different from the rest, and is able to distinguish the "key issue" unlike everyone else - and of what purportedly doesn't matter, like the name of something.
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y agoI don't have to distinguish anything, I just have to the humility to listen to what the experts say, rather than a bunch of webdevs. EDIT: Also, i'm not a biologist, but I see the same phenomenon in finance where a bunch of low pay webdevs nobodies refuse to make an effort to understand why Excel is popular, push their half backed solutions, and then are confused that nobody uses them, and frustrated when showed for the 10th time the feature set, that they don't really have the attention to detail to implement. Then i come on HN and realize "oh so _this_ is where these people come from".
- wiseowise 3y agoWhat difference does it make if they’re low paid or not? If you want to sound reasonable, at least try to hide your contempt. Better luck next time.
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y agoIt makes a difference because those that solve problems are well paid, whereas those than spend their time pushing their ideals of how things "should be", aren't.