The idea that risk isn't a part of the discussion about why a company is laying off 40% of its work force doesn't seem like it has much merit.
The responses made sense, and they've been explained to you. You're just casting about trying to come up with some way to dismiss the other persons point while intellectualizing it for the HN audience. If we were on reddit your tone would be some passive aggressive wiffle waffle about experience or intelligence.
The tone might change based upon the site, but the inaneness of the person behind them doesn't.
That's not what the poster you're responding to said.
Ruby on Rails was extracted from the creation of a website, basecamp. Once they were done creating it they realized they could extract a new framework out of it and did so.
This has multiple benefits.
1. profitable from the get go
2. design geared towards solving actual problems
What the person above you is saying is that the Unreal Engine was created in the same manner, whereas SpatialOS was not. And because of that, the risk was much lower.
> Everyone feels uncomfortable when a conversation goes off-script, but we as a society expect the 'abnormal' people to be the ones who bear the consequences of that discomfort whenever it arises. It doesn't seem fair, especially since the 'abnormal' people are expected to bear their discomfort in silence, but that's life for you.
Reminds me of something I say a lot.
There are some people that will point to geeky developers (as an example stereotype) and say they have poor social skills while believing they have good social skills.
When in truth it's always easy to get along with people you have things in common with. Good social skills is getting along with people you don't have a lot in common with. Meaning: If you find yourself struggling to get along with those geeky developers, you don't have great social skills either.