> this makes no sense to me, therefore it makes no sense.<p>This is my main problem with the tech community, especially HN. Most of the commenters here are intelligent and knowledgable, but many of them seem to be, for lack of a better word, arrogant. I see comments all the time that point out an undressed issue in a post and then go on to assume that they are the first people to think of issue and that it's unaddressable and/or unaddressed. It's not that hard to look past that tone and assumptions to get to the meat of the comment, but it gets old after a while. I don't think this means that all of the commenters on HN are cynical assholes (hell, I do it myself sometimes), but sometimes it seems that way.
Here's a link to the original HN discussion from September 2010: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975</a>