As far as the subgenres of rants go, that one wasn't so bad. The frustrated love was closer to the surface than it usually is, the author showed some awareness of ranting, and the comment contained some substantive stuff ("I solder...").
I appreciate how frustrating ranty comments can be, especially when they rank higher than they deserve—which is nearly invariably, as steaming indignation always gets lots of upvotes owing to some bug in human firmware. But it would have been better not to take the thread in a personal direction.
I appreciate how frustrating ranty comments can be, especially when they rank higher than they deserve—which is nearly invariably, as steaming indignation always gets lots of upvotes owing to some bug in human firmware. But it would have been better not to take the thread in a personal direction.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752546 and marked it off-topic.