"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's a particularly low-quality, low-information sort of post, which reliably leads to worse subthreads, which is why we added that guideline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972094.)

p.s. Animats is a great HN commenter who knows a lot about a lot of stuff (not everything, of course). I don't know how much he knows about shipping but if you know more, a much better way to contribute to HN would be to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Supercilious putdowns of other commenters just degrade the community.