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Ha! I see what you did there! A classic, Usenet-quoted, point-by-point nitpick, complete with UseNet style > quotes. I salute your ingenuity!

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Joel, news.ycombinator has somewhat higher standards for civilized discussion than you are exhibiting here.

Please either participate in a constructive fashion or confine your postings to the roughnecks in the stack overflow forums.

Joel, this response is disappointing. If you don't want to respond to the actual content of mpyne's response, just say so, or don't respond. Solely attacking the style of eir response is ridiculous. You're better than that.

Usenet is not the only community that uses '>' for quotes. I wasn't aware that Reddit or open-source mailing lists were so unusual, but I can certainly claim no lineage with Usenet.

I will, however, take that assumption as a compliment of the highest order, even if it involved no ingenuity on my part.

As an aside, I'm just going to assume that this is a counterexample to the "be nice" policy that is in effect for Stack Exchange-affiliated sites? Or is this rather another "founder exception" to the rules?

Wow, that's all you have to say? I hate to disappoint you but this is not StackOverblow. And while we're at it tell your fat friend to do some research before writing posts on that funny blog of his. He writes about a lot of stuff he heard about just the day before in a style which suggests that he's an expert on those topics, which may turn very unproductive for kids who read the funny blog and take his word for granted without further investigations.

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