> It's in vogue to rag on Apple because of its size/influence/market cap.
Article author here. I've been a Mac developer and blogging about the Mac since 2006, before iPhone was even announced, when Apple was much smaller in size/influence/market cap. Nothing about my blog is "in vogue".
> I've used hdutil perhaps never.
Why are you commenting on an article about hdiutil, which you've never used and can't even spell?
And why would you think that a technical comparison of the hdiutil and diskutil command-line utilities would be an effective way to "rag" on Apple? I use hdiutil every day, so that's why I'm concerned.
Hi lapcat, apologies, I meant no disrespect to you in my comment. I had a knee jerk reaction to what seemed to me "another Apple bad" post and exercised bad judgement. Cheers.
It's just frustrating that knee-jerk reactions are ubiquitous in the Hacker News comments, on every popular submission, despite the site guidelines urging the opposite.
In my case, this forum is habit forming to engage in the comment section. If a post has enough comments, to me it signals it's an interesting topic, never mind if I don't know anything about the subject matter, there might be very smart folks sharing knowledge. Comments can veer wildly off the original topic and I find that also appealing. This is "unfair" to the submitted post, of course, but ... HN is still here.
I'm not complaining about tangents, though, but rather about dismissive insults. A tangent is a conversation starter, whereas a knee-jerk dismissal is a conversation stopper.
