Please follow the site guidelines, which ask you to Assume good faith: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Consider that the downside of your being wrong is that you drive a newcomer away from this community. That's surely not what you want, and definitely the opposite of what this place is for.

check out my reply above - the owing my career to gatsby is very much about my specific story - a story that is probably very different from most hackernews contributors but maybe some aspects of it are more common for the lurkers here, of which I am one.

I would honestly be interested to know how many self taught people making things work building basic sites for unglamorous corners of the internet cruise this site.

To be honest I don't really feel welcome here because I'm not sophisticated (prob the best word for it) enough. But that's ok.

I run Hacker News. We're not interested in sophisticated; we're here for curiosity. If have that, which I'm sure you do, then you're welcome here, so please don't let a single comment make you feel otherwise.

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