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> It's in vogue to rag on Apple because of its size/influence/market cap. Article author here. I've been a Mac developer and blogging about the Mac since 2006,
by lapcat 2mo ago
> It's in vogue to rag on Apple because of its size/influence/market cap.
Article author here. I've been a Mac developer and blogging about the Mac since 2006, before iPhone was even announced, when Apple was much smaller in size/influence/market cap. Nothing about my blog is "in vogue".
> I've used hdutil perhaps never.
Why are you commenting on an article about hdiutil, which you've never used and can't even spell?
And why would you think that a technical comparison of the hdiutil and diskutil command-line utilities would be an effective way to "rag" on Apple? I use hdiutil every day, so that's why I'm concerned.
- stasomatic 1mo agoHi lapcat, apologies, I meant no disrespect to you in my comment. I had a knee jerk reaction to what seemed to me "another Apple bad" post and exercised bad judgement. Cheers.
- lapcat 1mo agoThank you. I appreciate the comment. It's just frustrating that knee-jerk reactions are ubiquitous in the Hacker News comments, on every popular submission, despite the site guidelines urging the opposite.
- stasomatic 1mo agoIn my case, this forum is habit forming to engage in the comment section. If a post has enough comments, to me it signals it's an interesting topic, never mind if I don't know anything about the subject matter, there might be very smart folks sharing knowledge. Comments can veer wildly off the original topic and I find that also appealing. This is "unfair" to the submitted post, of course, but ... HN is still here. Now back to hdiutil.
- lapcat 1mo ago> Comments can veer wildly off the original topic I'm not complaining about tangents, though, but rather about dismissive insults. A tangent is a conversation starter, whereas a knee-jerk dismissal is a conversation stopper.