"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I kid you not I once had a recruiter asking someone with experience in C/C+/C++

Not a typo for C#. He really wanted someone with experience in C+

> The code is written as direct and straightforwardly as the author could. It’s mostly plain C with minimal C++ features.

Sounds fair to me

this is also one of my biggest pet peeves too