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What a strange sentence.

What does your construction industry do if not "construct" those things? Have they devolved to just being lego builders that glue together the work of others?

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um, yes? Home building construction crews are not the ones making doors, or windows, or tubs/faucets/etc. They buy them as parts to be assembled into a whole. What did you think that the crews are pouring glass on site into windows, or firing up ceramic glazing ovens to cure the toilets and sinks?

In my country and most others, construction crews make windows and doors just like they make walls and roofs.

What a strange comment on the Hacker News, where everyone uses IDEs, debuggers, toolchains, profilers and other higher-level instruments to build products. When have you written your own hardware driver?

How many programmers do the low-level work on the "doors and windows" stuff? A tiny minority.

> Have they devolved to just being lego builders that glue together the work of others?

Uh, Lego comes literally from idea of using pre-made things to build a house. Lego was made from how construction industry worked.

Ever heard of BRICKS? Where you think Lego got the idea for it from ?

For enough money, you could certainly buy a custom house where all the wooden parts were crafted by hand... contractors have a price for everything.

The house will suck and you'll never be able to fix anything, but I'm sure you can get it.

Are you of the “if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” persuasion?

Not that far, but I would need to buy an apple tree from someone and wheat seeds

"It's one banana Michael, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?"

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