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casey2yesterday at 11:57 PM1 replyview on HN

The real takeaway from the article is that you can rathole forever on ill-defined problems. Decide upfront whether you care about actual humans and their usecases or hypothetical humans and their hypothetical usecases.


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PKoptoday at 12:35 AM

Or even, which subset of humans' uses cases you wish to concern yourself with as you can't always please everyone or tackle everyone's problems. If one only cared about a single language everything becomes much easier.

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