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by morgante 4242 days ago
Comments like this really annoy me.

What exactly is trivial about building a complicated multisource streaming video service with sophisticated recommendations (plus all the other "little" stuff like payments)?

Google is "trivial." It's just a box for doing text search on a graph database. Apple is "trivial." They just make pretty skins for commodity hardware & software. Etc.

When you consider 99% of everything in your field trivial, maybe you should consider refining your definition of trivial.

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Comments that contrive absurd strawmen annoy me, even if they provide the author that righteous sense of striking down an imagined position.