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Perhaps you are interested in these two comments by dang: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=dang%20brandonm%20dropbox&sort=byPopula

• OJFord 5y ago
  Interesting. I think those need to be taken in their own context though - at least the second is responding to somebody who is indeed being an 'internet-jerk'. Usually when I see it it's used either in a humbling reminder that the future isn't known sense, or a suggestion not to underestimate the value in simplifying, de-nerd-ifying existing things that work. I referred to it myself yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28359928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28359928) in the latter sense, and I hope nobody would read that as me being a jerk or attacking BrandonM or anything. I just see it as an 'historical' example of something we can learn from; in the same way as you could learn from some great statesman or general's mistake or whatever, without it tainting your image of the person or being an attack on them. I suppose most of the jerkier ones get flagged away, meaning I mostly don't see them and dang mostly does.