> And what's with this HN pattern of acting all innocuous and going "uh... care to elaborate a little further? hmm?? hm???"

The 'pattern' is that comments are supposed to provide some value and not just generic statements. The HN community overall doesn't want the comment section to turn into a Facebook comment style section.

So if you're going to comment, at least have something to back it up or give something that contributes to the quality of the discussion.

Ironically they posted, 2 days ago..

"Cool story but at least try to give some argumentation when you say stuff like:

>The design of the language in Dockerfile is ad hoc in a bad way. It’s difficult to understand, for me, and easy to make mistakes.

Because that reads like a skill issue to me"

Yeah but I don't pretend to be totally oblivious like I've seen many users do. They clearly want to imply something but they act all polite and dumbfounded to mask their actual opinion.

Those comments also add nothing to the discussion (but they make the person who posts them feel INCREDIBLY smug).

And regardless, your digging into my comment history just to prove your worthless point is proof enough that this community is insufferable -- I wasn't complaining about asking for sources, I was complaining about not being sincere about it.

Not that different from LinkedIn to be honest, when you tie your identity to your HN account.

If you advertise/recommend something it is your obligation to make the case for it. Not for the reader to research it. We should want this board to keep its high information value, not devolve into low information spam.

Recommendation to research something still can be useful. I didn't word it right. It should have been something like: "Add it to your list and research it if you're out of options". It helped me with some weird condition years ago which could have been depression but it had zero symptoms other than severe chronic fatigue, so maybe it wasn't.

The comment they were criticizing had basically nothing to do with the video. Aim your own critique upstream because that's the source of the problem.

I didn't word it right. It should have been something like: "Add it to your list and research it if you're out of options". It helped me with some weird condition years ago which could have been depression but it had zero symptoms other than severe chronic fatigue, so maybe it wasn't.

I have to thank you. I did as you suggested, for concerns similar to those you described, and the difference has been night and day.

I went into it skeptical, and your recommendation has been super helpful already. I’m very grateful.