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Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by outsideoflife on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:28AM (#15986469)
> Market success or user count are unfortunately not tightly correlated with technical excellence, as many of us have bitterly found out

It depends on how you define technical excellence. I would suggest a low memory usage might get you a thumbs up from HN, but isn't real technical excellence the ability to solve users problems?

Re:Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint... by krotton on Sunday December 24, 2017 @07:45PM (#16002066)
Nope. Publishing an offer on Craigslist to help with homework via Skype is solving some users' problems, yet has nothing to do with "technical excellence".