This has to be one of the most unnecessary comments I have seen recently on HN.
Civility people. What happened to that?
Btw, I down vote me if you like, but it's true. It's easy for us to get caught up in our own brilliance that we talk down to others that don't know as much in a particular subject as we do.
Ironically, it shows more about you, than it does them.
Civility? Go to a sports blog - put on you Bio that you are a journalist for sports illustrated and then in the commentary of an article on American football ask the question "who is Joe Namath?" Then judge my commentary by its relative civility.
Do you not read about the authors of books you read - music you listen to? Why then wouldn't you read up on the people whose software you use. I am sorry - it is ignorance and on HN that deserves to be called out.
Civility people. What happened to that?
Btw, I down vote me if you like, but it's true. It's easy for us to get caught up in our own brilliance that we talk down to others that don't know as much in a particular subject as we do.
Ironically, it shows more about you, than it does them.