Comment by shadowmint

10 years ago

Why do people keep reading TC?

Here let me make an article... wait wait... ah... "Big Companies FAIL" that sounds like nice click bait. Now... hm, let's invent some stupid word to pad it out how about the 'Stack Fallacy'. Programmers will dig the 'stack' part. Yeah. Ship it!

Seriously, this article is content free.

People make products. Sometimes they work... sometimes they fail.

If you pretend you have some magical insight into why they fail or succesd with gems of wisdom like:

    found it very difficult to succeed in what looks like a 
    “trivial to build” app  — social networks.

and:

    The stack fallacy provides insights into why companies keep
    failing at the obvious things —  things so close to their 
    reach that they can surely build. The answer may be that the 
    what is 100 times more important than the how.

Then... wow. I don't even know what to say.

Really? What you build is important?

No kidding.

Why is the top of the list this morning?

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puredemo  10 years ago

The technology world has grown so much in the last few years that any niche technology articles simply don't generate a widespread enough appeal, so what we see on YC today is highly generalized -- frequently to the point of sheer stupidity -- bullshit.

>Why is the top of the list this morning?

If anything, HN is basically more like "vaguely technical startup gossip" nowadays. Pretty useless, compared to something like /r/programming.