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I don't see how the headline is "inflammatory". You might disagree with the headline and the content and that is fine, however both headline and content reflects what I believe a core capability of (at least a significant number) of software products should be.

You think a core capability of software should be that it loses your data? That's like saying a core capability of shoes should be tacks under the sole.

Of course you don't really think that. What software do you use that loses your data. Don't say something that cycles data out of a cache or lets you delete data, because that wouldn't be losing it.

No one forced them to write a comment without reading the article. And it’s not a small point that the author corrected them on; multiple paragraphs addressed thoughts like archiving to make searching old things intentional, and soft deletes.

Also I didn’t read a scolding tone in the author’s response. And calling it an “inflammatory headline” is quite a stretch: this is a post tagged “thoughts” in someone’s personal blog, not a headline in the New York Times.

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