Nor should we care in this context.

He either has a valid argument to respond to the parent's claim, or not.

The parent made a claim. The other guy can respond something like "You're wrong, this information is not shown in XCode".

Or he could let the comment slip, and stick to what he said above. Somebody else pointing out how he is an authority is not an argument.

"Nonsense" was a very dismissive reply. What saagarjha said is not only sensical, it's true. And you were presuming to explain Xcode to people who know Xcode intimately.

> I speak purely off experience, writing/porting software for macOS for more than 4 years, most of the time using Xcode.

And I've been a professional Mac developer for 17 years.

It appears that you created your HN account less than an hour ago, for the purpose of talking down to someone who actually knows more than you do. I find this very sad.

This is a case where an "appeal to authority" is reasonable - CyclOp posted an opinion, that claimed Saagar was incorrect, but provided no supporting evidence for the claim, e.g. they have at best appealed to cynicism, or more realistically themselves as the 'authority'.

Now if CyclOp had presented actual support for their claim, or the erroneousness of Saagar's comment just responding with "Saagar knows more than you" would be BS, but that isn't what happened here.

In honesty, I'd also consider lapcat an authority on Mac and iOS dev as well.