It wasn't ok—it breaks the HN guideline against calling names—but we just didn't see it. The problem is that you responded by breaking the site guidelines considerably worse. That's not ok, regardless of how bad some other comment was or you feel it was. The guidelines are clear on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
By the way (this is unrelated) - did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37488716 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396401? I've been trying to let you know that there's a problem with your account and I have no other way of contacting you.