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"Maybe we can learn something from this experience." squints Have you been going back and editing/reediting your comments? It may account for (some of but no

"Maybe we can learn something from this experience." squints Have you been going back and editing/reediting your comments? It may account for (some of but not all) of the things I missed from you.

cbsmith 13y ago
I have edited comments in some cases immediately after posting them, as I have a habit of noticing grammatical errors, typeohs, errors in punctuation, etc. only after posting. I didn't alter anything that substantively altered or added to the meaning of what I said (when I have done that in the past I have marked the relevant text as an UPDATE so that the change gets noticed by anyone who may have already replied, but that wasn't necessary in this case), and I didn't edit anything any time after (or shortly before) you posted a reply. I find once a comment has been up long enough for people to read it, even in place corrections of gibberish to English increases confusion more than it decreases it. If you saw an earlier version of an edited post you might have found a non-sensical phrase or two (e.g. I do recall one post where I fixed an accidental "maybe maybe" to just "maybe", I do remember my first post had something like "which just the many of few examlpes" and I'm sure there was one or two superfluous apostrophes in some of the comments which I later removed), then it's conceivable you read something that was later edited, but if it was fully legible (more like, as legible as it is now ;-), then definitely nothing was edited. I can assure you that the qualifiers were there in the original postings. Truth is HackerNews locks down comments pretty fast, so by the time I might want to change/add/remove to what I've said in a way that even subtly changes the meaning, it's way, way too late for an in place edit. UPDATE: Murphy's Law strikes again. I remember one edit I did do that might be deemed more significant than the others I mentioned. In the original post where I said, "..it is maybe possible that a language that had standard ways of working with bytes say within the first decade of popularizing it just might be better suited for talking to hardware", I had original used underbar instead of asterisks to emphasize certain words. Once I hit post my mistake became obvious and I went back and fixed it. I made the same mistake again when I wrote the comment where I was quoting myself with previous excepts (so I changed "with italics" to "with highlights" and then promptly fixed the rest of it so that "with italics" was if anything finally the more accurate phrase ;-).

"Maybe we can learn something from this experience." squints Have you been going back and editing/reediting your comments? It may account for (some of but not all) of the things I missed from you.

cbsmith 13y ago

I have edited comments in some cases immediately after posting them, as I have a habit of noticing grammatical errors, typeohs, errors in punctuation, etc. only after posting. I didn't alter anything that substantively altered or added to the meaning of what I said (when I have done that in the past I have marked the relevant text as an UPDATE so that the change gets noticed by anyone who may have already replied, but that wasn't necessary in this case), and I didn't edit anything any time after (or shortly before) you posted a reply. I find once a comment has been up long enough for people to read it, even in place corrections of gibberish to English increases confusion more than it decreases it. If you saw an earlier version of an edited post you might have found a non-sensical phrase or two (e.g. I do recall one post where I fixed an accidental "maybe maybe" to just "maybe", I do remember my first post had something like "which just the many of few examlpes" and I'm sure there was one or two superfluous apostrophes in some of the comments which I later removed), then it's conceivable you read something that was later edited, but if it was fully legible (more like, as legible as it is now ;-), then definitely nothing was edited. I can assure you that the qualifiers were there in the original postings. Truth is HackerNews locks down comments pretty fast, so by the time I might want to change/add/remove to what I've said in a way that even subtly changes the meaning, it's way, way too late for an in place edit. UPDATE: Murphy's Law strikes again. I remember one edit I did do that might be deemed more significant than the others I mentioned. In the original post where I said, "..it is maybe possible that a language that had standard ways of working with bytes say within the first decade of popularizing it just might be better suited for talking to hardware", I had original used underbar instead of asterisks to emphasize certain words. Once I hit post my mistake became obvious and I went back and fixed it. I made the same mistake again when I wrote the comment where I was quoting myself with previous excepts (so I changed "with italics" to "with highlights" and then promptly fixed the rest of it so that "with italics" was if anything finally the more accurate phrase ;-).