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by qubex 2321 days ago
+1 for your reply and to cheer you up. I also got down-voted to hell for posting that rather innocuous comment — don’t let it get to you.

As for the element of surprise, not everybody moves in the same circles. You might be deep into server-grade operating systems, or DevOps, or other branches of information technology that are far from my daily experience. I haunt the areas associated with theoretical computer science, applied mathematics, finance, and the ins-and-outs of the (European) payments system. Each of our haunts are so vast that it’s easy to be erudite in general and yet still pretty ignorant of things others take for granted.