It's been quite a while since I saw such a mismatch/meltdown on HN like this. Don't take it too personally. I did think your comment (the one about read the docs & some source code) was a little dismissive, but in context of the rest of the thread it makes some sense. It does annoy me greatly when people spread the same thing across 10 different comment branches, ignoring answers they got in other branches, so I very much sympathize with you. In fairness HN obscures the timestamps after an hour, so it can be really hard to figure out the order of comments when reading later. Biggest HN feature request: I would love to be able to see the exact stamp (to the minute at least).

I think you did a fine job, and I also commend you for having thicker skin and not responding to the personal attacks on you in-kind.