alt Hacker News>For example, a valid budget requires some knowledge of expected income...
i forgot my golden rule of never giving examples or using analogies while on HN because people hyper focus on nitpicking the specifics of the example/analogy rather than the overall point being made.
amend my example to "make me a budget, here is 6 months of credit card receipts, and i make somewhere around $60k per year".
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jacquesm • last Wednesday at 7:46 PM
> i forgot my golden rule of never giving examples or using analogies while on HN because people hyper focus on nitpicking the specifics of the example/analogy rather than the overall point being made.
Yes, this is a real problem. It is also directly against the guidelines.
Actually I was really happy you included an example because it demonstrates just how hard is it to make a rule so clear that no one has to guess again. It requires adding all the detail and addressing all the nuance and before you know it, you're programming again. The structure of the language is irrelevant.