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Truly captures the spirit of these types of HN comments; Person A does a thing, Person B points out how pointless thing could have been done better in effort to flex smart.

Post - Blog post about recapping a Timex Sinclair 1000"

Response - "Ah yes, the 'multi-region composite mod'—because nothing screams cutting-edge like jury-rigging a 40-year-old potato to a VCR."

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> Truly captures the spirit of these types of HN comments; Person A does a thing, Person B points out how pointless thing could have been done better in effort to flex smart.

And then Person A goes off and founds Dropbox and 20 years later is worth $2.4 billion.

How dare you bring facts or narrative into question which dunk on the original commenter's upvote-worthy comment

So many open with “ah yes,” or “oh great,”

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