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My mother tongue is not English, but such silly errors are inexcusable. It takes a second to google the correct form. In fact, "it's self" put me off completely and I never completed the article.

So, IMHO, good spelling and grammar are essential to any discussion.

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Such silly errors are entirely excusable. I would like to know more about all these commenters who are so up in arms about this mistake that they did not deign to complete the article. You would have been very unhappy people before English spelling was standardized. I cannot imaging rejecting the substance of an article due to such cosmetic issues. I guess this is a consequence of the group here considering your postings on HN to be some kind of resume or CV. Colour me unimpressed with the herd.

Are you kidding me? You use IMHO and correct me on grammar?

what's wrong with IMHO? And how does it somehow make me unworthy of correcting your grammar?

You also used "it's" instead of "its" in a couple of places.

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