You're making a pedantic special case correction to a generally correct truth. This is not an endearing trait.
Everybody knows that a statement such as the one the parent post made will have special case exceptions: The point is that exponential growth should be the default & any other choice requires justification.
> Everybody knows that a statement such as the one the parent post made will have special case exceptions
Thank you for reading with a spirit of intellectual generosity.
When I write posts like this I always wonder about how many qualifications and weasel words I should add just in case it makes Hacker News and the nitpickers come out in force. In this case I wrote things like "A strategy that is usually better is exponential growth" but still many of the comments are polite variations on "exponential isn't best in all circumstances, you idiot".
(Google also gave me http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919, which I did not know about yet. The third month of the year often sees remarkable productivity, culminating in superb output in the beginning of the fourth month)
Everybody knows that a statement such as the one the parent post made will have special case exceptions: The point is that exponential growth should be the default & any other choice requires justification.
Asserting this is not a "misguided rant".