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Noumenon72yesterday at 5:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is an example of a functional cultural trait -- question and answer style should not be larded up with irrelevant pleasantries and redundant signatures that waste time for everyone reading the question thereafter. They took the time to fix it for you and you should have assimilated.

This is different from closing your question and depriving you of an answer or making you feel dumb. It's just teaching you how to communicate professionally.


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sethops1yesterday at 8:05 PM

I put my name on my professional communications.

znpyyesterday at 9:04 PM

Communicating professionally and coming across as polite are not mutually exclusive.

Stackoverflow was not the K&R.