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1. pjm331 · 1790377071 · focus · HN ↗

   Adult Roblox

   1. tptacek · 1790377220 · focus · HN ↗

      I love the idea that normal people building software to solve real problems in their life is, necessarily, a toy; the only real software is blessed by our sacred priesthood of PLT experts.

      1. pjm331 · 1790377355 · focus · HN ↗

         Didn’t mean any judgement just the metaphor that came to mind

         Roblox is a game where you make the game. This sounds like an OS where you make the OS.

         Probably could have spelled it out more, being too pithy perhaps

         1. tptacek · 1790377490 · focus · HN ↗

            No, you're fine, and I might be a little hair trigger; sorry about that.
      2. defen · 1790389609 · focus · HN ↗

         > Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys

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         1. tptacek · 1790390741 · focus · HN ↗

            This is why he has a bajillion dollars and I have more HN karma than him. I&#x27;d rather yell about it!
      3. ergl · 1790422459 · focus · HN ↗

         &gt; the only real software is blessed by our sacred priesthood of PLT experts.

         Incredible how anti-intellectualism keeps taking over the software engineering profession.

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