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Comment by demondemidi | Hacker News Reader

Old man yelling at cloud vibes.

Yes some people are experts and some are just adequate. Nothing new here. Not everyone can be a messiah like the author, who spends half of this short essay telling us how great he is.

This article has almost nothing to do with abstraction. The author loses interest in his own thesis after the first two paragraphs.

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That's how it is with all the articles on that site, which occasionally reach the front page. I'm sympathetic to a lot of the sentiments but the author pretty consistently fails to actually make any argument beyond "I am the smartest, and I don't think this is good."

Yeah I was at least expecting some concrete example or something specific... but nothing. I don't even mind "old man yells at cloud" articles if they show an example or provide actual substance since you at least come out of it learning something... but in this case the entire article just sounds like a bad HN comment.

Same feeling. How this article came up to the top? The example he gives is terrible "someone used a modern framework was hacked, but the performance was not caused by the hacking, but the frameworks was terrible slow" - Ok, which was the framework? How did you find it was slow just by looking at a diffs? What someone not knowing how to trim a tool for performance has to do with abstractions?

articles don’t reach the front page, headlines do

That exactly at that hacked framework example that I closed the tab.

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