Comment by crazygringo
2 months ago
How about you lay off the insulting language like "pompous" and "ridicule" and "protest and cry"? It's completely inappropriate for HN, and demonstrates a severe lack of maturity on your part. I think you can be better than that. Maybe re-read:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know what you're bringing up market share for. The idea that most people buy non-Apple because it has a DEL key is not plausible. Like INS, it's a vestigial key maintained mainly for backwards compatibilty with legacy enterprise software used by a tiny minority of businesses. Not for everyday use by normal users.
Now, you started this conversation by complaining about the lack of a DEL key, yet you're the one going on about how I'm continuing to "protest and cry"? Honestly, you might need to look in the mirror there. You're the one asking for a feature almost nobody uses, and all I'm doing is pointing that out. It's much better to respond to disagreement in a productive way by engaging in substance, not defensively by hurling insults.
To reiterate: no, it shouldn't be included on Macs because it's completely and utterly unnecessary. If you need Del functionality, just use the Fn modifier. That's what it's there for. And it's more ergonomic, as established.
"I don't know what you're bringing up market share for."
Says the guy who declared, without evidence, that "Not many people use forward-deleting."
And who, after complaining about my digging-up of statistics, doubles down by crowing about "a feature almost nobody uses," again without any evidence.
See, when rebutting an argument, you gain credibility if you at least make an effort to back up your assertion with facts. It's a fun and useful exercise, because everybody learns something... if they're willing to.
Meanwhile, your comments provide an amusing clinic on hypocrisy.
> Meanwhile, your comments provide an amusing clinic on hypocrisy.
Have you not noticed that you're also providing zero facts? Again, I suggest you look in the mirror. Do you somehow think that when you make a claim you don't need facts, but when people disagree with you they do...?
There aren't any actual studies on rates of usage of the DEL key. So I don't know what you're expecting.
I suggest, in the future, that you don't apply such double standards, where you demand empirical evidence from everyone else, but neglect to give any yourself. It's not a good look, and you aren't going to gain much respect doing it. Hopefully you can learn from this exchange and be better than that in the future. Good luck.
Except of course that I didn't make any claim requiring statistics, while you did.
And yet... I'm the one who DID supply statistics, which you ignore in your maniacal histrionics. Have fun!
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