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Posted by prakhar897 1/27/2026

Doing the thing is doing the thing(www.softwaredesign.ing)
585 points | 187 commentspage 5
_springbootapp 1/28/2026|
Brother please add proper exception handling :/D
tolerance 1/28/2026||
This version has the general form of the original, So why does it seem there is something odd about it?

Whoever the guy from ‘Strangest Loop’ is it’s my impression that it’s meant to resonate with self-starters; as if he’s speaking from that vantage of and for hustle culture. The grinders. The movers. The seniors. The managers. The founders. [1]

I don’t get that vibe from this derivative and in fact I think it carries a slight affect of a neurotic employee while the original airs determination. Reading this brings one into the mind of an observer, the founder of a VC firm, watching OP wring over a Palo Alto brewed latte.

[1] Am I the only one who was unable to find out his actual name on this website?

ramshanker 1/28/2026||
Thank you for shaking me once more .....
oldestofsports 1/28/2026||
> Buying tools for the thing is not doing the thing.

Why not? If i need a saw to build a deck, buying a saw must be the first step?

trentnix 1/28/2026||
Thanks for this. It is timely.
seec 1/28/2026||
So the typical nonsensical argument is that an architect should be a builder. Alright.

You can very much do the thing when it's not too costly to fuck up. For many important things, thinking about doing the thing is even more important than doing the thing.

COMMENT___ 1/28/2026||
Oh, now HN is discussing a meaningless copy-pasted self promotion blog post. I guess this says something about the current state of the HN community.
gordonhart 1/28/2026||
I like that this place still primarily focuses on the message (even just the headline) rather than the messenger. Feels like an antifeature of the big social media platforms that who’s saying it is often more important than what’s being said.
COMMENT___ 1/28/2026||
Your point is quite good. I like it!
1317 1/28/2026||
most of the time the article doesn't matter that much and you can still have interesting discussions of the topic at hand
dzonga 1/27/2026||
in short learn by doing.
globalnode 1/28/2026||
as a counter point, in another current thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789913, there's a discussion of the "hostile codebase" of openssl. maybe they neglected preparation and "just did it"?
mike741 1/28/2026|
TLDR: "Just do it." ~ Nike
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