This is absolutely a false dichotomy. A home-cooked meal is not one conventionally thought of as being from items hyperlocally sourced. At least, not in the last 70-100 years. We’ve had Sears Roebuck and the like for quite some time.
> A home-cooked meal is not one conventionally thought of as being from items hyperlocally sourced.
Exactly. To allow the category of "home-cooked meal" to exist at all, beyond professionals and a few dedicated hobbyists, we have to loosen the criteria. Similarly, "home-cooked apps" don't exist in the strict sense, but do exist with looser criteria, where we allow people to work with standardized, mass-market tools (e.g. drag-and-drop website and form builders). Expecting lots of people to start from raw source code is like expecting home barbecue to start from the pig.
knzhou|6 years ago
Exactly. To allow the category of "home-cooked meal" to exist at all, beyond professionals and a few dedicated hobbyists, we have to loosen the criteria. Similarly, "home-cooked apps" don't exist in the strict sense, but do exist with looser criteria, where we allow people to work with standardized, mass-market tools (e.g. drag-and-drop website and form builders). Expecting lots of people to start from raw source code is like expecting home barbecue to start from the pig.