Thank you for considering!!
It's helpful to the community to leave people feeling comfortable contributing, and removing contributions is a core part of that.
You only have a short amount of time, edits are disabled after...I'm not sure, perhaps an hour. If you regret removing it, you can always come back and reply again. :)
I'm not sure I see the point given how comment deleting works on HN.
You can only delete HN comments that have no responses, and that user's comment has a response tree of sufficient breadth and depth that it seems unlikely that everyone who has responded will delete their comments before the 2 hour edit/delete window passed.
The usual convention if you want to delete a comment but replies are stopping you from doing so seems to be (if the 2 hour window has not closed) to edit it to say "[deleted]" or something similar.
That still leaves your name on it, and so I don't see how having your name also mentioned in one of the replies is going to make anything worse.
Thanks for clarifying that!
To your point, maybe it is a problem.
Who knows. Life is messy, and pitching absolutes that you pretend are clear to everyone else in order to intensify criticism of a person for having any thought at all, actually only makes it harder to everyone else. (this is response to our friend here, not you)
I'm not sure why you're continuing to react strongly and personally to me. We shouldn't expect everyone to know everyone involved on a first name basis, immediately. We can't subject everyone to 21 questions about their personal and work history before responding to them, as that would also be rude. The replies in the first half hour all didn't have the context you had, and have now provided to the thread, and we universally reacted the same way. Mine more measure and polite, hence why its ranked highly and getting tons of replies now that activity has settled in.
And I'd be annoyed too, if I was working my ass off on a project, and continually seeing marketing measures being posted that I didn't think were valid.
But marketing lies (the engineering term) by figuring out when a lie isn't a lie (the legal term). It's literally their job. No news there.
The first 3 replies to Kenton, including mine, don't recognize Kenton immediately or on a first name basis just from their account name. So, we all reacted the way people react to the generic situation at hand: be careful, you're attaching your name and position to something that further commits your employer to a narrative you're trying to dispel.
I appreciate you providing this info, between that and Kenton's replies about themself (ex. about protos and cap'n proto) its clears that he has extensive experience in industry and at big companies, and certainly knows the tradeoff they're making. That's awesome, and different enough from the median situation to obviate early advice re: commenting on your employer.
Most days I wouldn't post a comment like the one above.
This was a bit of a "fuck it, just this once" moment and I'm not proud of it, but I stand behind what I said and don't feel the need to delete it.