Ah yes, Code: It's Trivial[1] Jeff Atwood quoting Benjamin Pollack " Developers think cloning a site like StackOverflow is easy for the same reason that open-

Ah yes, Code: It's Trivial[1] Jeff Atwood quoting Benjamin Pollack " Developers think cloning a site like StackOverflow is easy for the same reason that open-source software remains such a horrible pain in the ass to use. When you put a developer in front of StackOverflow, they don't really see StackOverflow. What they actually see is this: create table QUESTION (ID identity primary key, TITLE varchar(255), BODY text, UPVOTES integer not null default 0, DOWNVOTES integer not null default 0, USER integer references USER(ID)); create table RESPONSE (ID identity primary key, BODY text, UPVOTES integer not null default 0, DOWNVOTES integer not null default 0, QUESTION integer references QUESTION(ID)) " [1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/ Appropriately enough the blog is complaining about the attitude being displayed on Hacker News