[mixmastamyk]

Crikey. Nitpicking a single sentence (in a document of hundreds of pages) to the degree you just did is not nearly useful as you seem to think.

Sometimes a sentence is a little too general, or too specific. It happens often and we all know that. Indeed, in this short post I've probably already committed that sin. 100% guaranteed you made several errors (especially of degree) in the post above.

[kragen]

There's an enormous difference between "sometimes a sentence is a little too general, or too specific" and making 12 serious factual errors in 86 words. My comment is 1944 words, at least according to Emacs; if it had the same error density, it would have not just several errors (though I note you were unable to find any!) but 271 serious ones.

You did make one error in your comment, though; when you said "Nitpicking a single sentence", you implied that my comment only dissected the errors in a single sentence, rather than an entire paragraph.

When text is carefully drafted by competent people, it is impossible to "nitpick" it to the degree I just did. It is very rare to find something either as error-filled or as badly written as this paragraph. The fact that the document is hundreds of pages long makes the situation far worse, not better; all of those hundreds of pages seem to be of the same appalling quality.

[mixmastamyk]

Only skimmed your comment. Because swebok and your scathing critique are not important enough. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

[kragen]

What, you think I wrote the SWEBOK? Or maybe you just don't understand the Shakespeare you're quoting any more than you understood what I was saying in the first place.

[kragen]

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918401 you admit that you only skimmed my comment; that's why you mistook it for nitpicking. Consequently, your response is wholly incorrect.