Everything is learnable. For the poster-child of good posts, see Patio11's comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11 http://news.ycombinator.co

Everything is learnable. For the poster-child of good posts, see Patio11's comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11 http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11 Also, know the official etiquette/guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html