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1) He probably couldn't use HTML 2) HR sucks unless you can style it. 3) You don't need to understand HTML to be a good pundit 4) The tildes look nicer anyway. 5) The...

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It is just being nitpicky instead of engaging the substance of an argument, but if you ever go to a blog and see that the writer doesn't know how to use the blockquote tag, don't you just think, "This guy doesn't know what s/he's doing…"?

This guy doesn't seem to know much about HTML, and yet... I think I'd consider that he's a guy who does know a thing or two about what he's doing, in his areas of expertise:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/experiments.html

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