Reading the original context, missiles don’t even make sense. I agree condescension isn’t helpful though.

That's probably how the poster knew it was wrong.

It's "hacking and startups" per the guidelines. AND. You also don't have to be an entrepreneur to be a hacker interested in startups. Most of us are hackers employed at startups.

And if you're working at a startup or interested in a startup, at any level of employment, and you don't understand what those terms mean...then what the hell are you doing in this space? Go work at some "safe" company.

> most of us are hackers employed at startups

Bold claim, should we do a poll? How long should we let it run for, a week, two weeks?

Or you're not interested in finding out and just downvote, cool, cool.

By all means; I also work at a start-up. That doesn't mean that everyone here does, or is interested in doing so, or will have the necessary background. All I ask of you is to present information in the spirit of the XKCD 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

perfect

They didn't "admit that they didn't know something". That would be a post like "I didn't know what that meant but I googled it."

Instead their response to the grandparent post was, effectively, "you shouldn't post without dumbing down to my level". I was condescending, absolutely, but at least I provided the definitions rather than just shit up the place with noise posts like the one I responded to.

Stack Overflow is that way, sir. This is Hacker News.