Maybe you should go back and re-read the article. The whole point of the article is that programmers see a few database queries and the major, obvious functional points and say "I could do that in ..." Whereas, to me, saying "something like" means recreating a comparable user experience.
I think any decent web programmer could hack together a bare bones, functional Q&A site in a few hours. I have no reason to doubt you couldn't implement a lot more features in 24 hours. But to claim you could provide a comparable user experience, I'm just not buying it, even if you have a lot of the generic building blocks already written.
I think any decent web programmer could hack together a bare bones, functional Q&A site in a few hours. I have no reason to doubt you couldn't implement a lot more features in 24 hours. But to claim you could provide a comparable user experience, I'm just not buying it, even if you have a lot of the generic building blocks already written.