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It's a shame you think that I'm trolling. You're welcome to go back over my comment history and look at the conversations I've engaged in. Sure my comments provoke a range of respo…

I was not trolling by the definition I know. I just thought that it might lead to an interesting conversation. It's just too hard to communicate on the internet, especially with pe…

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that I would want others to extend to me and not accuse you of pedantry. But I don't think there's much steam left in this conversati…

Specifically the casual use of the word 'insane'. I don't think it's unreasonable to discuss the contents of the page and make references to things not contained on the page.

I'm looking for interesting discussion with intelligent people on a range of subjects guided by user-submitted stories. I'm looking for explorations of ideas, learning new things, …

It wasn't primarily a joke/10.

I think it adds to the broader discussion that goes on on HN, specifically over the last month or so. Could you remove that joke about the dog from your profile page please? I went…

Don't be a joke pedant? The author (me) uses the quotation in an ironic manner.

I was going to say "the equivalent of heteronormative but for mental illness" but I thought that anyone that understood what I was saying might have just let me have that one slip …

How do you square that with the article? It specifically says that that Django REST is "insane".

"Django REST framework is an insane framework" I'm fed up with this kind of oppressive language. This is heteronormative and is discriminatory to the mentally ill. It's stuff like …

That typeface. Looks a bit like Bank Gothic. Can an American explain the cultural connotations? As a European it has very particular associations. A cross between Real American Her…

For a very narrow range of software, I suppose. Not for software that has side-effects and actually does stuff in the real world. What about software that sends emails to people, o…

What happens when your customers' data is lost or corrupted because of a bug you could have caught?

I read the headline and skimmed the article. I only realised at the end, when he's trying to sell you something, that the 'we' is inclusive-marketing-speak. Before that I thought t…

Can you define the criteria by which you judge it to be a 'code smell'? Can you contextualise the criteria? Can you match those criteria to this context? (Not rhetorical, I'd like …

Accidental deliberate misunderstanding is still deliberate misunderstanding.

Sorry, I should have put a tag around that to clarify that I don't actually believe any of the above. (Do I really need to say that?). I won't spell it out again, I've made other c…

Here's the thing. So am I. I would say I am very egalitarian and very empathetic. I would say I am a feminist, which is perhaps why I find certain behaviour on the Internet under t…

I've seen this happen, also in Uganda. Absolutely terrifying.

Yeah sorry it's not that important. I suppose I was more sensitive to it because the discussion was derailed into misogyny (which derailing I participate in).

Sorry, there's no handbook. You just have to go through life doing your best, occasionally there's a little misunderstanding and there's a witch-hunt and you're subjected to mass-I…

Why do you assume the author is a man?

Hear hear. But you're not doing it properly. Please be consistent. "what about being human when it matters most? In person" - doesn't this exclude people with social anxiety disord…

No. Neither was the obfuscated swear word in the title. Nor the word 'screw'. Nor was the picture at the top of the article or the pink headings. Or the call to action below. Nor t…