> I think you shouldn't write TL;DR comments here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210126 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210126 Thanks for th

> I think you shouldn't write TL;DR comments here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210126 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210126 Thanks for the reply. Perhaps it boils down to confusion over what TL;DR actually means in different contexts. My take from that thread was that it's discouraged to post a comment saying you didn't read an article because it was too long. This only makes sense: such a comment is necessarily devoid of informed content, as the person writing it chose not to read the source material before commenting. In this case, I was indicating that I read the piece and was posting a brief summary that captured what I believe to be the salient message - i.e. that Tim Bray knows a lot of secrets about Google but isn't allowed to talk about them publicly.