"Uh..." is pretty off-putting as well. Might as well just come out and call people stupid. I'm glad most people don't talk like that on HN (although there was a

"Uh..." is pretty off-putting as well. Might as well just come out and call people stupid. I'm glad most people don't talk like that on HN (although there was a flood of it when Reddit went down for half a day.) The rest of the comment was perfectly fine, and would have been effective without the downspeak bits.