[prohobo]

I don't get it, you joined this thread to call me an idiot with a meme, and now you're talking about being a neutral arbiter for a technical discussion that I supposedly ruined.

More than anything I'm getting frustrated with HN discussions because people just insinuate that I'm stupid instead of making substantive arguments reasoning how what I'm saying is wrong.

Are we performing for an audience or having a discussion?

[throwanem]

I can't make heads nor tails of anyone's position in this mess, precisely because of its devolution into everyone yelling at one another. Yours happened to be the tail comment on this branch at the time I posted. Don't take it more personally than it was meant.

I understand why this website doesn't have DMs except among YC founders. But if it were otherwise, I'd have DMed you instead of posting that first comment publicly. The criticism I remain convinced has merit, but such things are better done in private. If I chose to make an example out of you over the other guy, it was because you looked like offering a better chance than he of redirecting this into the kind of discussion from which someone could conceivably learn something.