I know. And I'm sorry, bitterly sorry, but I know that... no apologies I can make can alter the fact that in our thread you have been given a dirty, filthy, smelly piece of technical argument.
I'm not following you here. The point is that you have a history of doing this and if you won't stop doing it you can't comment on HN.
What can I say, being an asshole is one of my diversity dimensions. We just had that training at work, it was very helpful.
Also, I hope you aren't a Python dev in your spare time. Guido would be appalled.
We're lucky that you didn't spark a horrible flamewar, but instead got patient, factual replies.