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Phew, when I read these posts, I often wonder if I said something dumb in the past and I think I can easily be proud of my comments there, though I missed the JSON5 thing[0]. Fortunately, the thing that keeps me from saying dumb shit about other peoples' tech is:

* my belief that people who execute on some project are inherently superior - they made a thing to solve a problem! Automatically superior to people who didn't make a thing

* the Blub Paradox http://paulgraham.com/avg.html I can only judge projects accurately where I am operating at a higher-level of thought. If I don't get the need, then I am probably not operating at a higher-level than the author. I prefer to be able to have sufficient Theory of Mind thinking that I can inhabit the author's mind to see why they need something, make the best case for it, and then reject/accept it if I have to. There are many places where I can't. The most trivial example which everyone grasped before I got there is GraphQL as an API specification and IDL, which I only recently really grokked.

In any case, I had a figment of the idea that you talk about which is the "people who won't be your users". Thanks for citing the thought around that.

Congrats and good luck!

0: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...