RockingGoodNite

> The “political” polarization is part of it. The older folks bring it with them.

So, discriminatory, ageist, prejudicial comments are allowed on HN now? Or only if it's against "older folks", I see.

> I can't be the only one here who is both skeptical and a little turned off by someone who says "You can stick any user input into a database query and you'll be fine", with a condesending pat on my head.

Like how Google has worked the past 2 decades? OP said snippets then you gloriously paraphrased it into a completely different statement.

> How do you know that over time it won't grow into something terribly unmaintainable?

Like pretty much all Angular projects?

Agreed. Half of people want simple, maintainable solutions. The other half want complex solutions that people can glam onto, like how politics works.

>> Or perhaps more correctly, value is value.

So, Microsoft's own Dynamics offers no greater value than their competitor SAP, even within ... Microsoft.

You can find a McDonald's next to a high rise, the contrast is pretty wild.

2 key words, Wireguard and a cheap VPS.

With 8 billion people on the planet and many people with Internet access these days I'm surprised there aren't like a billion people on Steam.

That reminds me I'm an idiot for defending Google in this.

No one really uses spreadsheets any more except as nicer CSV outputs.

I remember 1998 Microsoft like yesterday. Google past or present is no 1998 Microsoft in terms of badness.

In 2002, Code Red mostly brought down the Internet. It was big news then. I can't imagine Microsoft could survive that happening today. Either way, making it sound like something that happened so few human years ago in either case deserves more reflection.

> Tons of functionality you get in Excel is not there.

On the rare occasion I have to put something into Excel for some business person, it's a dump from CSV.

The opposite sex. Done.