My first draft of that post was more question-based than statement-based but for some reason I thought the rewritten version was better presented. In hindsight that was really poor judgement on my part. Sorry for that. But I assure you that I'm very much interested in learning :)

The "digging deeper" was more down to responding to other people who had misunderstood my original comment. And lets be honest, there has been a lot of that as well.

edit: oh jeez, someone's been on the rampage with the ▾ clicking. I think it's time I get HN a break because the moderation on here has really been bugging me in recent months. I know it's a tired cliche, but I'm sure this community used to be less hostile. </soliloque>