[throwaway4773]

It's not demeaning, it actually adds color to the answer and makes it more engaging. I don't know what's up with HN's fetishizing of impassionate, humorless and snarkless style. Not everything has to be written like the IEE 754 specification.

[DenisM]

Snarky comments explicitly discouraged in the official guidelines, which you can find at the bottom of this page.

[elcomet]

You can be passionate and nice to people. This was mean.