Hardly. The attitude you're demonstrating is the real anathema. You're just confusing people recoiling from your abrasive disposition with disagreement over the importance of tests (as others have done in this thread).
> Enterprise JS is 400 lines of code... 0 lines of tests. Kudos, NYT.
See how your comment carries across a real difficulty working with other people? This would have said the same thing, albeit without the slam to the author:
> This project has no tests. Maybe I'll fork it and add some, in order to make it more robust.
Another example from your history:
> adding position:relative without knowing what it does... great advice
Someone made a good point here which is actually grounded in reality, and you responded with a smartass remark which might have discouraged him from contributing in the future. One of the guidelines for Hacker News is that you shouldn't write a comment that you wouldn't say to someone's face. If you go around quipping like that to peoples' faces, I pity your acquaintances.
You could have worded it this way:
> That isn't what position: relative is meant for. There is another way to accomplish that: <blah>
Just be positive to your fellow human being. It's not fucking difficult. That's why you're getting downvoted.
> I'm suspicious of anyone who spends their time critiquing others' work so harshly instead of innovating on their own.
How in any way is that 'positive'? Also, read the OP's original post. Is it really that offensive to you? I can almost see it as some poke of a joke--humor. Something that seems to escape the boring minds of those who long to be someone special, DEFENDING THE INTERNET! Stop being a superhero, read the comment and move on. There is no reason for you to regulate anyone's internet experience.
I'm not trying to take sides, but from an unbiased point of view, you argument is invalid.
Since you and goldenthunder completely missed this, allow me to clarify that OP could have been critiquing the project's choice of variable names and I would have said the exact same thing.
You clearly don't understand the importance of TDD like many others (count the downvotes).
If you cannot stay with the curve because of your lack of knowledge, maybe you should spend less time flaming on Hackernews and more time studying up, sir.
I'm not seeing how my statement has anything to do with TDD. OP was very harsh in his critique, whether it be valid or not (which I never said anything about), and that's all I was making a point about.
Going from there to my supposed 'lack of knowledge' is a poor representation of yourself, too.
