Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

Re:Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC by dcre on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:46PM (#14816587)

I find it obnoxious when a commenter whines about a single word in the first line of a long article. It's hard to imagine any reason for that beyond "look at how good of a complainer I am".

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Re:Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC by DonHopkins on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:20AM (#14819138)

I think he was trying to be ironic by being picky and pedantic about the exact meaning of a word, while spelling it wrong at the same time. I took it as a successful attempt at self deprecating humor, by criticizing "clever writers" while ignoring the squiggly red line his spelling corrector drew under the word he was talking about.

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Re:Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC by probablycorey on Thursday July 20, 2017 @06:10PM (#14816720)

I agree with both of you.

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