[DanBC]

Do you realise that you come across as rude and arrogant? I don't think that you intend to, but you do.

You might want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739

It's about people posting meta commentary on HN threads.

[graycat]

Simple: I like music, was interested in the OP, had never heard of AudioKit, and have never used Unix, Linux, or any Apple products.

I understand computing, violin, tuning in music, Fourier series, Nyquist sampling in digital signal processing, saw some music performance software decades ago, am interested in software for composing and performing music, needed an overview of AudioKit, and thought that the OP would have been helped by an overview.

For too much of the audio voice, I couldn't make out the words -- the speaker just needed to speak up, speak clearly, and not drop his voice.

For me to read the screen, I needed another 400% of magnification.

I wanted explanations of terminology such as playground -- sounds good, but in what sense do we have a metaphor of a real playground?

So, I suggested such revisions. My suggestions should have been constructive.

As it was, I gave up on the OP -- I'm really interested in the subject (on violin, I actually made it through a lot of the Bach Chaconne, especially the D major section -- no way to do that without being really interested in music) yet gave up on the OP as something with text I couldn't read and audio I couldn't understand. So, maybe the OP has some problems?

But then I got voted down and criticized. Then I defended myself.

It's all very simple.

So, some people on HN just assume that of course anyone on HN is a LInux/Apple user -- of course. Maybe they are also a Windows user, but necessarily they are a Linux/Apple user. Of course. Impossible to understand otherwise.

Well, that assumption is wrong and absurd. It's also "arrogant", intolerant, and, really, uninformed and ignorant. I just defended myself.

Linux/Apple are not the only good paths into computing now. There is also Windows. It happens that I'm a Windows user. Gee, if I'm wrong, then get PG or Sam to change HN to Linux/Apple/Android HN.

Right: With some of the audience at HN, I don't fit in. For that audience, I'm not sure I or anyone should want to fit in.

[aure]

Your first comments were not rude and I've responded to them but I don't appreciate the personal attacks, and you've gone off on unprovoked tangents. Everyone, just walk away.