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If it’s used by < 1000 people, it’s not a complicated app

FedRAMP will be the death of me.

so like 90% of software?

Scaling and edge cases with real users are the difficulty. Feel like this isn’t even that controversial.

we agree, i just think you are overestimating software complexity for most businesses

If that is the case, 90% software was never lucrative

This isn’t meant to be sarcastic: have you ever worked for a real company?

I would ask this: which is the worse failure mode —- design not quite right, or users can’t access the app?

On the other hand, teaching taste is quite hard, and is what people respond to and what designers learn.

Teaching programming is a bit of mostly solved problem, today anyway.


Realistically this doesn't mean all pure designers go away. Large orgs can have a small team that set the overall style guide and designs important pages, and the rest of the org just follows using AI to iterate.

That's the kind of question you will have to ask if you don't hire right. I get collapsing frontend/backend and PM/UI/UX but two then collapse code and product may be a bridge too far.

That’s what CEOs think lol. Let’s see if it pans out!

"I have an error when i click on the orange button, see screenshot. fix it."

You mean the brilliant mathematician with the correct insights into the modern American condition?

Yes, a billionaire and substitute teacher have the same political power in America. Couldn’t have put it better myself.

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Yep, that's why substitute teachers' interests are more zealously guarded by Congress than the interests of billionaires are. Teachers have wielded the enormous power they hold to get a <= $250 deduction for school supplies they purchase with their own money.

GP said “a substitute teacher” vs “a billionaire” - why have you decided to pretend they said something else?

You’re also flatly wrong, given you’ve utterly ignored the trivial things wealth buys (for starters), but hard to expect accuracy when basic honesty is so lacking.


The terms are defined by the AI dealers!

Well said. It’s striking to me how many adults can’t conceive of “violence” as an abstraction that results in certain effects and fall back on “violence is dealing direct physical injury to a person’s body or building.”

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Weirdly enough, I find that victims of violence who weren’t engaged in a greater act of violence (i.e., the domestic abuse victim versus a soldier in a conflict) are often the staunchest advocates for unwarranted harm towards others to preserve their personal sense of safety. They will carefully carve out a definition of violence that speaks to the specific harm they suffered and requires explicit physical action, and then use that qualifier to reject any other notions of violence.

A recent example is the domestic abuse victim in my complex who has setup private surveillance cameras in the indoor common areas that are heavily trafficked by other neighbors, none of whom have given their consent. She does not consider warrantless surveillance of others (or calling the police on those of us who do not wish to be surveilled in a secure area of the building by her personal cloud camera) to be a violent act, nor does she consider threats of calling the police on those who shield themselves from her camera’s view to be an act of violence.

Violence is not limited to physical actions that induce physical harm, it is any action intentionally designed to reduce the safety or security of others - physical, mental, fiscal, political, etc.


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I’m sorry but what you’re saying is the reason why we won’t overturn systems of oppression.

If you’re expect to not be challenged in thought you are oppressing others.

The sole reason the concept of "physical violence" exists is because violence without that qualifier is not necessarily physical, but still violence.

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Not to appeal to authority, but because I think it's useful, here's how the WHO defines it according to Wikipedia:

> the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation

Note words such as "power", "psychological harm" "maldevelopment" "deprivation".


Yes. That also takes resources away from people experiencing actual violence. The qualifier “physical violence” isn’t used by people that deal with violence. They use the term “violence”.

“Intellectual violence” is a term used by cowardly people that desire power and wish not to be challenged by others. Those people must be mocked at every opportunity to ensure they are never taken seriously.


Oh so you want to beat people, but you don't want people to beat you? Such a brilliant insight!


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ok. You're a new account here, I've been here close to 2 decades. Pretending other people want to beat you up and insulting them won't work out.

All I hear is "waaah, waaah". What is it, baby, not spanked enough?

Yeah I’m sure the savings will be passed onto the consumer, genius


Savings are literally being passed onto the consumers. The #1 reason people buy imported goods is that they are cheaper: if they're the same price as domestic goods then there will be little incentive to buy imported goods and domestic jobs won't be going away.

In other words, the only reason foreign industry threatens domestic jobs is because it's cheaper to produce the same thing in these countries and the cost savings are being passed on to domestic consumers.

Sometimes I wonder if we're simply living in different realities. You may claim it's not worth it, but you can't claim it's not happening. Just go to grocery and see the prices of Mexican avocados and everything.


If you think that software isn't meaningfully different than avocados then maybe we are living in different realities.


What enemies?


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