<story><title>HFS+ is crazy</title><url>http://liminality.xyz/hfs-is-crazy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s amazing how garbage like this always rockets to the top of HN.  This guy doesn&amp;#x27;t know anything about file systems or about the operating system he&amp;#x27;s using.  But he sounds confident, so that&amp;#x27;s evidently good enough for a lot of people.&lt;p&gt;If you think it&amp;#x27;s crazy that a file system supports multiple data forks&amp;#x2F;steams, then you don&amp;#x27;t know very much about file systems.&lt;p&gt;If you think it&amp;#x27;s crazy that an operating system maintains backward compatibility with an older system, then you don&amp;#x27;t know very much about operating systems.&lt;p&gt;If you arrogantly make these pronouncements on your website then you look like a complete idiot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Profan</author><text>People don&amp;#x27;t know what they don&amp;#x27;t know.
Talking down to people who think something is strange for being the way it is, instead of explaining to them why it is, is so counterproductive and serves no purpose.
Everyone has things they don&amp;#x27;t know, just provide an explanation instead of an arrogant comment.&lt;p&gt;He even says &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m sure there&amp;#x27;s an Apple-y reason for the existence of this feature, but I can&amp;#x27;t imagine what it might be.&amp;quot; That&amp;#x27;s literally a &amp;quot;i&amp;#x27;m not sure why this is&amp;quot; right there!</text></comment>
<story><title>HFS+ is crazy</title><url>http://liminality.xyz/hfs-is-crazy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s amazing how garbage like this always rockets to the top of HN.  This guy doesn&amp;#x27;t know anything about file systems or about the operating system he&amp;#x27;s using.  But he sounds confident, so that&amp;#x27;s evidently good enough for a lot of people.&lt;p&gt;If you think it&amp;#x27;s crazy that a file system supports multiple data forks&amp;#x2F;steams, then you don&amp;#x27;t know very much about file systems.&lt;p&gt;If you think it&amp;#x27;s crazy that an operating system maintains backward compatibility with an older system, then you don&amp;#x27;t know very much about operating systems.&lt;p&gt;If you arrogantly make these pronouncements on your website then you look like a complete idiot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>It seems you are knowledgeable on the topic, why not make your criticism a bit more constructive? Why are &amp;quot;multiple data forks&amp;#x2F;stream&amp;quot; needed and what are they used for? (I don&amp;#x27;t know very much about file systems)</text></comment>