Honestly, I wasn't too worried about making something complex - I wanted to write something quickly that would work reliably.
Yes, it's trivial to write. But it fulfilled a need that we had, and getting something useful released rather than building something needlessly complex is, from what I understand, everything that HN is about.
Yes, it's trivial to write. But it fulfilled a need that we had, and getting something useful released rather than building something needlessly complex is, from what I understand, everything that HN is about.