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Ah yes, the ubiquitous middlebrow dismissal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 http://www.byrnehobart.co
by opmac 8y ago
Ah yes, the ubiquitous middlebrow dismissal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissals-so-tempting/ http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...). "As a non-kernal guy" gives it away immediately.
- cryptonector 8y agoThe other responses were useful. Yours is just a put-down. Why bother? To discourage "middlebrow" comments? But the one you're responding to elicited useful information, so it's hardly a problem.
- striking 8y agoI found the articles on the "middlebrow dismissal" insightful. And I don't think ends usually justify means; I think the parent-most comment was not as nice as it should have been. The parent comment is not so much a put-down as much as it calls out a particularly unsophisticated dismissal. The parent-most comment would have elicited the same useful information if it were phrased as a question, but would have been less uncouth. I think that's a perfectly fine thing to write a comment about.