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How is this personal? I have no idea who the person is... I'm commenting on something they wrote, not on something they are. If a person in a home-cooking foru
by crabbone 2y ago
How is this personal? I have no idea who the person is... I'm commenting on something they wrote, not on something they are.
If a person in a home-cooking forum advises someone to use a butter knife to slice tomatoes, it's highly appropriate to tell them they are incompetent and shouldn't be advising anyone. This post is exactly the same: an absurd advise that can only be explained by either an honest mistake or incompetence.
- kstrauser 2y agoThey didn’t say they were doing something goofy like that. They said they were running into problems at work. It could well be that they have a million-LOC repo that’s enormously complex with decades of legacy setup to consider. Presume that they’re competent at their job, and maybe what they’re trying to do isn’t trivially easy.
- pvg 2y agoit's highly appropriate to tell them they are incompetent It's not on HN because it's a personal swipe and the HN guidelines ask you not to do those. It might work on your cooking forum but we know, empirically, that it doesn't work well here.