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by nkohari 4860 days ago
I'm not sure if you intended it, but this comment seems extremely egotistical.

Are you genuinely interested in his/her experience and having a conversation about it, or are you saying (as it seems to read), "How many apps have YOU developed?"

If it's the latter, you're being kind of a dick. Just saying.

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I can see how my comment could be taken this way. It's not want I wanted to express. I wanted to state, as a disclaimer, that I'm the author of the post.

As for answering the comment, it's really more of an ad hominem so that's why I wrote the snarky "That's interesting".

I am interested in what he developed though, especially as he's so sure of his one true way.

NB: My husband isn't a native English speaker. His point was that he wrote about our experience with a specific app and that the bulk of jacquesc's argument was "Thomas rails like a zealot" and implies Thomas is an old dead horse (?), and otherwise was basically "nuh-uh." Without supporting detail.

It was an invitation to provide details instead of ad hominem attacks (speaking of being kind of a dick). Because his native language isn't English, this got a little bit mangled. I already pointed that out to him.

Also he wanted to say he was the original author, and it ended up sounding like a line from an action movie.

I'm sorry for calling Tom a zealot (which I've since removed).

If it makes you feel better, I'm a client side MVC zealot. For Aiur!