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by shadowbanthrow
2271 days ago
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This is why I often, and loudly, make the point that Hacker News is a great reflection of SV at large. It is also not the only example. The indictments here regarding perceived expertise outside of one's lane are not necessarily indictments of Hacker News. Hacker News reflects its constituency, a large number of whom unconsciously feel that software engineering expertise is a gateway to understanding other disciplines better than those actually practicing them. Just throw some code at it, right? Misplaced competency in far-ranging topics thanks to software engineering and VC exit is only validated by, say, essays written by two very famous people here that get a clap circle every time they're posted. I've studied this effect in my own life (I am far from immune) and I think it's because software engineering, and architecture especially, gives one a systems approach to thinking. It feels natural to apply your systems thinking to all of the problems in the world that look like they need a system. The problem is that the world is a plethora of imperfect variables, and what seems to be a "simple" system to fix the world in the eyes of a Ruby developer lacks the nuance to understand all of the reasons things are the way they are. Ironically, those same engineers often perceive the danger of a wholesale rewrite of code which discards the same exact hard-won nuance in their own system. My life got immeasurably better once I was banned from this community and exited SV. I can assure you that the summaries on N-Gate and such, no matter how much shooting of that messenger is expended by people who believe themselves to be right, reflect how this site, and SV at large, are perceived outside of the community. Yeah, all that venture capital and world-changing hubris and "software will eat the world and give us flying cars" thinking, and here we are with half the world rotting on Facebook and the other half showing up on ClearviewAI. |
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> Hacker News is a great reflection of SV at large
More than 90% of HN's community is outside of SV, and the bulk of the community here is actually rather disposed against it (or their image of it).