You are making a logical fallacy of sorts. He wasn't destined for this role, he just happened, by skill and luck, to make it out of the 7 Billion people who didn't. If he was alone he wouldn't succeed.
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The only people I would not want to work with are ignoramuses and ironically, smart-asses. So you.
for(i = length - 1; i < SIZE_MAX ; i--)
but it is completely valid.
5 is also missing a check for a NULL pointer. ;)
Most of there rules are unfortunately ignored, as obscure information. The worst offender I see in wild code is 5.
The second most ignored is not checking values before computation: 10, 11, 12.
No.7 is very interesting, rarely violated, most programmers don't even know that is a thing or just assume the processor won't trap on an unaligned read.