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You're acting like I've never heard of either Emacs or Vim before, and you shouldn't do that. The net effect is to make HN less fun and less useful for everyon

You're acting like I've never heard of either Emacs or Vim before, and you shouldn't do that. The net effect is to make HN less fun and less useful for everyone. Because the next time I think about starting a conversation on, say, similarities and differences between successful, competing software packages and the cognitive models they encourage... I'll remember that this time, when I tried to keep my opening post friendly, informal, and solicitous, you assumed I was an idiot. I'll be sure not to make jokes when I think someone else is getting too uptight, because jokes are emotional and text editors are serious business. And most importantly, next time I'll establish my credentials up front, by prepending everything in my .emacs.d to all my posts. It's a little verbose, but it means nobody gets insulted by being mistaken for a n00b. Plus, in Conkeror, it's really easy to write a regex that will detect 30,000 lines of custom elisp and set it to {display:none;}.

Ixiaus 15y ago
Is this in response to my other comment or this direct comment? Nothing about the comment you are responding to here is attacking you. Your understanding (or writing, as I said) is flawed. Maybe you aren't a noob and you just aren't expressing yourself well enough. Your comment wasn't "unfriendly" it just wasn't enlightening. I did not assume you were an idiot and no where in my comment did I insinuate that. Nothing about an .emacs.d proves you are a competent emacs user - I've seen some hideous init files come from Emacs noobs and hideous init files come from power users! Depends on what you mean by jokes - Hacker News (less so now than a few years ago) tends to be a serious forum for discussion; reddit-esque joking around is both frowned upon and discouraged. Although, TBH I didn't see any "jokes" coming from you at all. I wasn't responding to your jokes (unless you're talking about my other comment in response to you).
- mnemonicsloth 15y ago
  First, phrases like "your understanding is flawed" and "maybe you just aren't expressing yourself well enough" are way outside the bounds of civil conversation. Second, how would you unpack this sentence? "Aren't black and white basically the same color these days?"

Ixiaus 15y ago

Is this in response to my other comment or this direct comment? Nothing about the comment you are responding to here is attacking you. Your understanding (or writing, as I said) is flawed. Maybe you aren't a noob and you just aren't expressing yourself well enough. Your comment wasn't "unfriendly" it just wasn't enlightening. I did not assume you were an idiot and no where in my comment did I insinuate that. Nothing about an .emacs.d proves you are a competent emacs user - I've seen some hideous init files come from Emacs noobs and hideous init files come from power users! Depends on what you mean by jokes - Hacker News (less so now than a few years ago) tends to be a serious forum for discussion; reddit-esque joking around is both frowned upon and discouraged. Although, TBH I didn't see any "jokes" coming from you at all. I wasn't responding to your jokes (unless you're talking about my other comment in response to you).

mnemonicsloth 15y ago
First, phrases like "your understanding is flawed" and "maybe you just aren't expressing yourself well enough" are way outside the bounds of civil conversation. Second, how would you unpack this sentence? "Aren't black and white basically the same color these days?"