[elliott99]

Because I feel that people on HN try to micromanage their neurons to an extent that they evaluate themselves as if they were computer hardware....

"Well I only have so much RAM to do this task, but if increase my computer processing power through deliberate practice..."

I was a bit offhand, I admit. I was in a bad mood when I made that comment. But I stand by the fact people on HN take themselves and their capabilities way too seriously, without any thought to the fact, say, that the internet and programming are only a minuscule fraction of our history as intelligent lifeforms. While I love the internet/programming/topics discussed on HN, I just think that people here are too hard on themselves. You're not a computer with specs, you are the results of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.