[pcof]

Am I getting too old and grumpy or are the kids today getting too young and clueless? For the sake of Odin, it's Monday - even the Sumerians had problems with incompatible newline markers depending on the type of clay used to make the tablet. This is certainly not news and I sincerely hope it doesn't qualify as hacker either.

[ajross]

I share your grumpiness. But given the number of otherwise-smart people I've had to explain this to: yes, this is something that needs to be explained to the median reader of Hacker News. Too many developers in the modern world work only in abstractions and don't have any grounding in the way bytes are laid out in files.