[jb1991]

Exactly this. It's not just rubik's cubes, it's also very easy to, for example, use just a few lines of bash to implement a stable, featureful sync tool like dropbox. Everyone's always making things seem more complicated than they really are.

[detritus]

I genuinely can't tell if you're being sardonic here. This being HN, I guess I have to assume you're being earnest.

[bombcar]

Mentioning Dropbox is the key to it being sarcastic.

Like someone saying “less space than a nomad. Lame.”

[jb1991]

yep sorry, the Dropbox reference is a long-standing HN inside joke about comments like these. You can probably search to find the whole history of this reference, it's rather amusing.

[pvg]

long-standing HN inside joke

It's more of a worn-out trope by this point and better skipped. Just sneerfully flag lame comments.

[detritus]

I know the meme, which is why I was wondering, haha :) It's also the sort of thing that could've been meant entirely sincerely, in line with the comment of the person you were responding, being particularly painful to me as I've always had a massive mental block with Rubiks Cubes!

Dark [Rubik's] Magic that they are.

[umanwizard]

Er... what? I don't understand how this is related at all. And yes, I know about the famous Dropbox HN comment.

I agree with the other commenter that a normal 3D cube feels much more intuitive and simple. I guess it's just personal preference/thinking style.