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by ccalvert 4088 days ago
You may or may not have a point, but I don't think you are making your case. The complexity of a piece of code is not a means of detecting its value. Facebook was originally written in something like a weekend or less. Twitter was not originally a complex piece of code. Also, writing the code is only half the battle. The other, and often more difficult, half is getting the word out, and this guy has managed to get a very visible notice on Hacker News, so he's way ahead of the curve. Also, you don't really prove that the code was easy to write, we just have to take your word for it.