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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by dang on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:46PM (#13664697)
This sort of heated rant makes for a bad HN comment, regardless of how correct your views are. It leads to flamewars, which we don't want here, so please don't post like this.

Even if you took out the rantiness, the comment is still too generic to actually be saying anything. So to convert it to a good HN comment, you would need to both de-flamebait it and add information (e.g. specific examples).

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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by catshirt on Thursday February 16, 2017 @07:01PM (#13664786)
i enjoyed the conviction.
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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by revscat on Thursday February 16, 2017 @07:08PM (#13664830)
There is far too much conviction in the world. One of the reasons HN is so enjoyable is that the discussions tend to avoid the heat that you can find just about anywhere else.
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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by iak8god on Thursday February 16, 2017 @07:39PM (#13664974)
> There is far too much conviction in the world.

Are you sure? :)

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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by dang on Thursday February 16, 2017 @10:48PM (#13665770)
I can appreciate that, but empirically we know from long experience that such comments lead to downward spirals. That's why the site guidelines are the way they are; it isn't to dampen conviction.
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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by catshirt on Friday February 17, 2017 @08:07AM (#13667993)
so, if i'd noticed you were dang before i responded i probably wouldn't have. only because i was trying to form a consensus. i didn't realize the consensus was being explained to me. :)
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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by dang on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:23PM (#13671392)
Not sure I know what you mean but I'm glad you responded—I like it when people respond :)
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Re:Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide by catshirt on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:56PM (#13671640)
i appreciate your rational/educational/hands-on style of guiding culture.

so i was trying to say, without sounding like a pushover, that i may not have responded in fear of undermining your hard work.

cheers & thanks sir!

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