[whstl]

I wonder if I'm witnessing the birth of yet another Hacker News thought terminating cliche.

There is a place and time for everything. You can drive as fast as you can in a Formula 1 race, but when you're around pedestrians you gotta slow down.

Similarly, complex abstractions can often be fast to write but difficult to maintain. Similar to a lack of them.

But sure, it all has a time and place. Except the attitude of dismissing or never discussing this topic. That's the only thing that is "wrong" here.

[allknowingfrog]

I think we're saying the same thing. My intention was to point out the subjective nature of the original comment, not to kill the discussion.

[lamontcg]

The previous comment seemed more "thought terminating" to me than the Carlin reference response to it.

[whstl]

Are we reading the same comment?

The gist of it was: "This specific thing makes my job difficult, please be mindful of people like me" is just personal experience.

The comment even contains the word "please" in it. And they even acknowledge that it solves other problems.

But it's a bit shitty to dismiss someone's personal experience and plea by mocking with exaggerated quotes from a comedian, just because you happen to disagree with them.

[lamontcg]

> The senior engineer who introduced the thing like this inevitably leaves and nobody cares to learn some bespoke abstraction enough to keep using it.

They seem to be saying that this inevitably happens and to never use the abstraction. They may have inserted a "please" in there to try to make it superficially appear softer, but they aren't actually being very nuanced at all.