Hacker news commentary options on coding advice: 1. Spin the advice to make it sound like the advice is bad 2. Turn the advice around to make the author look bad 3. Criticize technology choices ( promoting your own choices of course ) 4. Some variant of "duh" or "don't reinvent the wheel" 5. Lament the sad realistic state of the programming world 6. Cast the author and others into various categories ( such as what I'm doing now )