"I’m accused of fanboyism a lot more these days, but only because Hacker News keeps sending huge waves of people here who tell me I’m an idiot." It is true tha

"I’m accused of fanboyism a lot more these days, but only because Hacker News keeps sending huge waves of people here who tell me I’m an idiot." It is true that, at times, HN can latch to technology "beliefs" as strongly as some political robot spews garbage in the HuffingtonPost comment section (whatever you do, spare yourself the pain of ever looking there). This is because people naturally focus on their individual experience and bias, not large swaths of the population. It's the way people are wired. And, a lot of HN'ers are hard-core-anything-but-Apple for lots of reasons. But I do think the discourse here is at least backed up with intelligent supporting arguments, not just knee-jerk opinion, even if it is myopic and individually anecdotal. And it is for that reason that I often find myself reading the comments here before I read the actual articles.