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It says "me, a beginner"

The hn submitter presumably edited for length

By changing "non-developer" to "developer" (moving "beginner" from the end to the beginning doesn't really change the length). That's quite an intrusive change, it seems to me.

The edited one is longer. Why would you want to edit the title to make it longer?

No it isn't:

  How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner

  How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

We are kind of both correct.

GP mentioned:

> The title of the blog post currently is:

> > How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

> The HN title is:

> > How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

So GP cut off , a beginner ending which in turn falsified my claim of it being longer, and I didn't verify blog title.

My apologies, SoKamil, for cutting off the ending in the comparison. I wanted to highlight the difference and figured the first part is where the difference was. As in, they are still a non-developer and shouldn't have to learn all the details so it doesn't matter if they are just a regular non-developer a beginner non-developer.

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