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> I guess my degree in electrical engineering was a waste of time.

That much is abundantly clear.

Come on Jeff. Please don't make things even worse like this. We've had to warn you about this kind of thing many times in the past as well.

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

Sorry. I always feel like a person opens themselves to this type of feedback after they attempt to assert their own subject matter authority, as has been done here.

I hear you! But these feelings are so common that if they justify breaking the guidelines, we might as well have no guidelines. Everyone always feels like the other person started it and did worse, and that their own contribution is always defensive and not-as-bad. Acting on that is a recipe for a downward spiral: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang&da....

It follows that everyone needs to stick to the intended spirit of the site no matter how badly others are behaving or you feel they are. That's not easy of course. But it's the only way for this place not to destroy itself.

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