More traps! More black eyes! Nary a feather in your cap! Had you any friends I would urge them to see to you. The ideal candidate for this job knows when -- as

More traps! More black eyes! Nary a feather in your cap! Had you any friends I would urge them to see to you. The ideal candidate for this job knows when -- as Kenny Rogers put it -- to "hold 'em" and when to "fold 'em." By not simply walking away from a fruitless discussion with a self-admitted troll, you've shown yourself to place pride above the minimax of effort in the pursuit of solution. This single-minded devotion to a stupid, stupid task is not a quality we look for in our engineers. Instead of readjusting strategies and avoiding the sunken cost fallacy, you chose the classic 6th grade technique of pretending you knew all along and the decidedly modern approach of post-facto appointing yourself as head of Hacker News' Troll-Baiting Brigade (official motto: "We Get Made Fun Of So You Don't Have To," official song: "Nearer To Thee, PG"). When faced with a losing bet, you doubled up. You can keep the dry erase marker you're holding, but I'm going to have to ask security to see you out. Hard to find quality candidates these days...