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I didn't downvote, but I'll take a shot at answering. Your post had a touch of condescension, sort of: "well I work at Google and you don't, so I obviously know
by PhantomGremlin 10y ago
I didn't downvote, but I'll take a shot at answering. Your post had a touch of condescension, sort of: "well I work at Google and you don't, so I obviously know better than you ...".
Kind of reminds me of this HN comment and rejoinder:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Did you win the Putnam?
Yes, I did.
You generally don't know the history of the people you're interacting with here on HN, so it's not always appropriate to act so smug about where you work.
- mwpmaybe 10y agoThat thread is amazing. My favorite part is the inventors of Tarsnap and Dropbox basically saying to each other, "oh hey, I'm working on the same thing as you!"
- cperciva 10y agoThat's a bit of a mischaracterization. Drew said that he was working on the same thing as me; I didn't respond, because my response would have been "no, you're not; I'm building a secure backup tool" and I didn't want to antagonize people any further.