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A more charitable take is that OP tried to make his blogpost more accessible to newbies at a very small verbosity cost for non-newbies.

Fwiw: i'm totally fine with that.

> This makes me wonder if it has design choices to ...

I personally felt that the relevant design choices were explicitly enumerated, and so one needs not to deduce them from the rest of the text.

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That’s fair, and I offered that mainly in the spirit of feedback. To me, and perhaps to no one else, but just to me, it was a little off putting. Like, “yeah, yeah, I know what SQL is. Do you think I don’t? Or did you just learn about it last month and you’re eager to share?”

I’m certainly not gonna lose sleep over it. Someone came on HN to show us their neat new project. I wanted to give them my first impression to help them craft their future messaging. If they disagree, fine with me! They don’t owe me anything.

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