Says the guy who created a Delicious clone in 2009! http://pinboard.in/about/

(I admit it's a bit ad hominem, but putting other people's stuff down for being derivative when your thing is the epitome of that seems lame to me.)

Ah, but he made a clone of del.icio.us from back when it was new and minimal and still really awesome. Which is much, much better than a boring old clone of modern Delicious.

formally: logical fallacy of ad hominem tu quoque

Surely HN hasn't descended to making fun of startups' names?

That reminds me of you making fun of Wufoo's name in this video (1:07):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6392191576577272336...

The difference is, I wasn't using it as the basis of a judgment about the company.

The difference is, I wasn't even referring to the names, but rather the linked descriptions. For example:

"Embedly is a single source for embeddable of content on the web."

And rather than mockery it was an expression of regret, that it's 2010 and these are the best startup ideas you got. I think the names do a good job mocking themselves without any additional help.

Impressive weaseling, though!

Neither was your opponent. Perhaps you should debug your Robert-Morris-inspired software-based integrity emulator.