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> Your post seems like nothing but that "genre" of hn post someone pointed out recently.

Yeah, sorry about that. I was kind of worried it would come across that way.

I was just thinking though of what kind of clarifications I would have liked to have had with this kind of article before I knew anything about the subject and thought some others might as well.

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I think you added something to the conversation, and being the top comment it would seem so do other users. The comment made by 'joe_the_user, however, is shallow and pointless and advances the conversation in no direction but down. I think it's often good to have someone point out the "editorialisation" (for want of a better word) of an article, because after all this material has been designed for (somewhat) casual consumption, not as a how-to. But we're hackers and we like to start sentences with the word "Technically..." ;)

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