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Hey flatline3, I feel your pain, but it's time to stop feeding the troll.

• huggyface 14y ago
  You "feel their pain" by tracing through this entire sub-discussion, desperately clicking down-arrow along the way, and then adding some masturbatory, zero-content noise comment to try to cluck with the herd? This is, without doubt, the Worst of Hacker News. My original post mentioned the truism that commenting was a crutch (which to a non-idiot doesn't mean that all commenting is bad, but that when someone is bad at writing or reading code they need to lean on comments in a negative fashion: No longer do they need to write clear, provable code, but instead can inject lots of comments that may or may not correlate with the reality reflected in the code (more often it does not). No longer do they need to understand what code does but instead can just hope and pray that it does something similar to the vague description at the outset). Cue the chorus of hilarious quacks making their utterly stupid, Reddit-quality posts to try to sing with the chorus. Give me a break. Declaring someone a troll is the banal hubris of the intellectually broken.