> evidence that people who live wherever you live are bad at using software libraries.

If you don't have anything to add to the conversation, please stop harassing people online. I have 15 years of programming experience and I don't need to prove to you that I __can__ use libraries!

Yet it is you who first made a sweeping generalization across continents based on what sounded like your inability to use one tool vs another.

The post is literally a "Ask HN" question. There was no claim.

I'm not taking sides on this, but I wanted to point out that you do make this claim: "Do Americans (or more generally, programmers in the states) write better software because they're more closely in touch with the tech industry?"

Are Americans more closely in touch with the tech industry? I don't know what this is based on, but I'd like to see the metric compared to other countries, such as Japan.

I can't tell, because the grammar is sufficiently vague, if your claim is that American software is better, or that Americans are more in touch with the tech industry, but it surely seems like one or the other.

I mean, quite frankly I don’t care whether you can or not. That was hardly the point; I was trying to show what a bizarre leap the initial claim was.

Based on your process, I would now like to claim this as anecdotal evidence that people whose experience of programming, in years, is a non-prime number are bad at arguing on internet forums.