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by cxr 1798 days ago
> "I hate people advocating for a tool by bringing up the problem it was used to solve. Just keep your app so simple that you don't need the tool."

Casually dismissing others by strawmanning them with fake quotes is against the rules. Even outside of that, it's just generally the kind of thing that is neither respectful or respectable. Please don't do it.

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It's not a fake quote. It's a statement of what I perceive his statement to mean. A translation.

Did you actually think I was trying to attribute that quote to op?