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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by fredoliveira on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:00AM (#30414818)
> since we apparently don't have much imagination to work with here

Oh, I'm much more likely to engage in a great conversation after an ad hominem. Sigh.

I am well aware of how browsers work and what they automate for you. But you called them bots. You lumped them with several other types of software, which doesn't make sense. I never said you were incorrect — I said you were going for the technically correct and the gotcha.

Do browsers include automation? Yes. Do things get automated when you use them? Yes. Is software development automation at heart? Yes. The fact that you are correct about these things doesn't make the deception any less obvious: you are using these technicalities to misrepresent what a browser is — which doesn't make sense in the context of the thread -, and that's all I pointed out.

Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by Brian_K_White on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:06AM (#30415466)
Pedantic was not an insult, but unimaginative was, got it.