| ▲ | conartist6 3 hours ago | |
Right it's whether your aspirations need to be grounded in reality. Do you actually need to build strong foundations, or can you just throw away all your work every time and start over from scratch? What confounds me is why I am on Hacker News having to defend the idea of software architecture being a kind of capital. That's not supposed to make some sort of countercultural revolutionary. Where did everyone go!! | ||
| ▲ | conartist6 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Just to remind you what Paul Graham said when he defined what the "Hacker" in Hacker News means: > What and how should not be kept too separate. You're asking for trouble if you try to decide what to do without understanding how to do it. But hacking can certainly be more than just deciding how to implement some spec. At its best, it's creating the spec-- though it turns out the best way to do that is to implement it. | ||