You say callous, I say realistic about the prospect of selling things to people using 10 year old hardware. If you aren't my customer, and most likely aren't going to become my customer, I choose not to expend (often lots of) extra work to support you.
It's about startups and it's hosted by a VC startup accelerator. A huge number of startups fail because they aren't able to get paying customers, so yes, selling is a big topic here.
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You say callous, I say realistic about the prospect of selling things to people using 10 year old hardware. If you aren't my customer, and most likely aren't going to become my customer, I choose not to expend (often lots of) extra work to support you.
So Hacker News is about selling?
I'd be interested to see if this is one of the big divides here.
It's about startups and it's hosted by a VC startup accelerator. A huge number of startups fail because they aren't able to get paying customers, so yes, selling is a big topic here.
That's a far cry from "the only topic that matters."
Aside: burn karma burn, if that's the community I don't want to be a part of it