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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by gkya on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:15PM (#16758583)
Nostalgic Unix nerds hating on everything that (i) was not in original Unix, or (ii) in Plan9, or (iii) not implemented by authors of these.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by Volt on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:35PM (#16761325)
Cynical and disingenuous.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by B1FF_PSUVM on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:03AM (#16763114)
Bitterly invidious Lisp nerd?

(They give off rays or something ... took a cursory look to see if I was being unfair, and booom - https://www.gkayaalp.com/blog/20170206_emacs-argument.html )

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by gkya on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:27AM (#16763768)
Yeah that's me :) At least the second part, because with Emacs I don't really need to be invidious.

TBH I do actually like Unix and Plan9, but having read a big part of cat-v website in the past, most of the views there are fanatical, and are more bitter, cynical and disingenuous than I can ever force myself to be. Especially the way incredibly useful and important OSS projects are denigrated and misrepresented is really annoying (see the harmful stuff section, for example).

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by B1FF_PSUVM on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:08AM (#16771731)
Well, I apologize and withdraw the 'bitterly invidious', you aren't.

One part is a matter of taste, and having been around both styles, I like better the 'keep it simple' approach. Too many functions/options overload my simple brain ;-)