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It wasn't meant to be a putdown, but I agree it was harsher than it needed to be. Thanks for the heads-up, I will be more careful going forward.
by qsort 6y ago
It wasn't meant to be a putdown, but I agree it was harsher than it needed to be. Thanks for the heads-up, I will be more careful going forward.
- dang 6y agoAppreciated—and I believe you of course. The trouble, as you know, is that intent doesn't communicate itself very well on the internet. Objects in the rear-view mirror are snarkier than they appear, or something like that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=disambiguate%20burden%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... The forum thread is such an intimate conversational genre that we're all inclined to wing it in the comments (and so we should), and at the same time it's common for people to see their own work discussed here, plus HN threads tend to rank high in search results, so the impact can go far beyond the room.