Reminds me of a blog post about Stack Overflow[0], which references a HN discussion[1] where people were guesstimating that they could reproduce all of SO in a

Reminds me of a blog post about Stack Overflow[0], which references a HN discussion[1] where people were guesstimating that they could reproduce all of SO in a weekend. We're tinkerers - when we see something, we immediately think about how it works under the hood. And because we're too clever by half, we're dogged optimists, thinking there is always a way to accomplish something. As we mature, we realize that things are often more complicated than they seem on the surface, that often a lot of engineering goes into making something appear simple and easy, and especially, that there is more to the value of something than the effort it would take to build a copy of it. [0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.ht... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501