I wonder why the need for this validation. I see deluded thinking all the time in this field, in fact, I see it more in this field than any other because it is so easy to be self made here.
You can fake "working" software, that's why so much of it is low quality because to outsiders it is magic and to us insiders...apparently it is magic that only we can perform and those other people can't. We still get paid.
The weird thing is working across multiple fields, the social scientists were the most honest with what they didn't know and made no pretensions about it. But they won't write an essay bout it and post it to HN. The pretensions in this essay would have shot it down in their heads.
I got another comment flagged for "snarky", but I know you are smart enough to see the inherent disrespect to other fields (and perhaps ignorance of them), in your post.
I thought it was more than a little bizarre, in a thread where people are tlaking about being brain raped by the brothers (YC pr had me convinced, too, I had no clue), the YC people that show up to defend him are: the CEO of Coinbase, a guy that's know for running a scam and defending himself on Twitter (rebranded) and that PG had the nerve to defend in essay about "Haters", and the lead mod, who isn't obviously a mod until he is.
What kind of people are you guys attracti9ng? They all this unaware? I'm just an outsider, but you all look like you are full of shit.
The charitable thing to do would be to read the statement in the context of the paragraph that it is a part of. There is no issue. The rude thing is six comments from different people assuming the author is dumb.
You can fake "working" software, that's why so much of it is low quality because to outsiders it is magic and to us insiders...apparently it is magic that only we can perform and those other people can't. We still get paid.
The weird thing is working across multiple fields, the social scientists were the most honest with what they didn't know and made no pretensions about it. But they won't write an essay bout it and post it to HN. The pretensions in this essay would have shot it down in their heads.
I got another comment flagged for "snarky", but I know you are smart enough to see the inherent disrespect to other fields (and perhaps ignorance of them), in your post.