I guess caching is as hard as writing about caching, then. The author, while not sure if to teach or to preach, did a lousy job at both.
Conveying frustration of the highest caliber sometimes requires profanity and if you can't deal with that then grow up.
Agreed, but that’s unrelated to what your parent comment says:
> using profanity is a lousy way to explain things
Explaining something and conveying frustration are not the same thing. So you’re not really disagreeing, you talked about something orthogonal. For all we know, the parent commenter agrees with you. It’s not contradictory to think profanity is a good medium to convey frustration but a bad one to explain a concept.
> and if you can't deal with that then grow up
That was uncalled for. Please be mindful of the guidelines. HN aims for civil discourse, not needlessly judging others.
And while I don't want profanity present in all the articles I want to read, I find this kind of tone way more appealing than the dry, PR-approved blog posts where the only kind of levity found are "2010 internet humor" cat pictures, and "Corporate Memphis" illustrations.
Or it can be overused or in the wrong context.
It's rare you get something that can't be expressed in some other way, however - but it does exist, especially in the world of jokes.
Recall that in Game of Thrones the young Arya (she/her) grabs a light fencing stabbing weapon with two hands and flails it about like a 12 year boy playing with a pretend broadsword.
Syrio, her teacher, proceeds to correct her and teaching the beginning fundamentals of swordplay.
The GP has used a simile cussing like a 12 year boy and could perhaps instead used braying like a donkey, bellowing like a sea lion, cursing like a sailor, etc.
The use of a simile does not imply that the subject of the simile is a 12 year old boy, a donkey, a sea lion, a sailor, etc.
I think they did a perfectly good job and this is good writing and it's not indicative of their intelligence or maturity.
Haven't you ever got frustrated at something where you just are constantly cursing inside. That seems to be what spurred this on, simple as.
Unfortunately, I think you are right.