Think about all the personal and professional feedback you've received over your entire life. Have you ever been told you're too curt, abrasive, or aggressive?

Think about all the personal and professional feedback you've received over your entire life. Have you ever been told you're too curt, abrasive, or aggressive? Has anyone told you that what you say is fine, but how you say it alienates or frustrates people? Do you feel like people avoid interacting with you or generally bring up issues (especially personal issues) with other people well before they bring them up with you? Do you feel like you're constantly being misunderstood or that people are taking what you're saying the wrong way? Do you often find yourself rationalizing the impact your words have by telling yourself other people are too sensitive, too stupid, or too deluded to hear what you're saying? Because right now, that's what's happening. And unless this is a particularly off day, I'd be astonished if you haven't had this reflected to you before by friends, family, and/or co-workers. You're 100% right on the technical merits. Everybody here understands what you're saying and agrees with you — nobody cares. It seems like you're going out of your way to humiliate the original commenter for no good reason, e.g., by calling him delusional, even after he admitted that he understood what he did in high school in no way rose to the level of what Carmack did. The OC was describing the sensation vindication and pride he felt when he figured something out on his own and later learned that a more advanced version of same idea already had a name. This is a feeling most programmers can relate to, I think. I only learned what a "trie" was, for example, years after I implemented a shitty version on my own. Whatever your intentions are, you have to understand the impact your words have. And in this thread, at least, it's not pretty.