[gweinberg]

If you believe that, why did you use forms of "to be" just now? "when Im was in high school", "this is overly restrictive", "there was a better way", pretty much the only part of your post which would find favor with your English teacher was "it sucked".

[habosa]

I've fallen out of the habit, also hacker news comments don't call for all of the style rules I use for formal writing.