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onan_barbarian on June 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advice From An Old Programmer

Sigh. You appear to be in a selective parsing frenzy. Have fun with that.

You attempting to draw Big Important Distinctions between the bits of that particular passage that are 'personal opinion' and 'statement of fact' is at least entertaining, given that the whole piece is _all_ pure opinion.

little_droog on June 17, 2011 [–]

Can you two just get a room?

I think this subthread is providing a fine counterexample to the idea that hiding comment scores magically improves the quality of discussion on HN.

Dove on June 17, 2011 | [–]

I don't think even the wildest optimist would expect hiding comment scores to tame Zed Shaw.

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