Can you please not do flamewars on HN? Such tedious tit-for-tat exchanges aren't of general interest, or even of individual interest once the heat dies down.
I didn't consider what I was doing a flame war. I originally honestly asking for more information, and then considered it a conversation on the merits of explaining a topic to a general audience.
That genuinely interests me, which is why I've gotten into conversations on this topic a few times in the past. I understand that others may be uninterested in that or find it tedious, so I'll try to refrain in the future. My apologies.
Thank you for the polite reply. I admit I didn't read it closely enough to suss out the subtleties. In our experience, when people starting arguing "I didn't say that, I said this" with each other, the conversation is close to informationless and tends only to produce more heat.
That genuinely interests me, which is why I've gotten into conversations on this topic a few times in the past. I understand that others may be uninterested in that or find it tedious, so I'll try to refrain in the future. My apologies.