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by JoeKM 4769 days ago
My problem with your question is the evergrowing lack of critical thinking on HN. I think even PG has eluded to it.

What's the difference from Bootstrap? Why don't you view its source? Read through the framework's documentation? For one the default styling is significantly different than Bootstrap.

The one thing I fondly miss about Slashdot is people would liberally tell you to RTFM when you asked something obvious that could have been answered by reading the article posted.

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Then go back to slashdot and be rude there.
Suggesting someone to apply critical thinking is anything but. Your confrontational attitude is though. Another thing becoming of HN.
you are being rude in the first place. You could have framed your comment better. quit HN if this community is disturbing you so much.

I disagree with your original comment. Yes, we can read the source. Yes, we can analyze it ourselves. But time is limited to all of us. The product should state exactly how it is different with the competition and why we should pick it. This is similar to how pg asks startups to describe themselves in one simple sentence. You don't tell pg that he lacks critical thinking for not reading my website.

Stating how you are different gives the customers focus. If you state that you are different because of X then you can go into the code and look at X particularly.

Yes I do that when it's apparent that it's worth my time. When I come across a new technology which I don't really get the point of (like this one), I ask around first instead of wasting my time to go through viewing the source and stuff. That's what most people who respect their own time do.