[livinginfear]

I don't think ignore the haters is sage advice in this context. What was directed at this project in the original HN thread was not hate, it was criticism. These are very different things. People were not abusing the author. Some of the original commenters had very salient critiques, and questions.

"Ignore the haters" reads like: "I ignored all criticism of my idea, and some other people like it anyway.".

There's already so many terrible technologies in the web programming domain that have plowed onwards in the face of so much criticism, and now we're stuck with them. Part of being a good programmer is being humble, and accepting that you might not have all the answers, the best ideas, or see the bigger picture.

[dietrichepp]

The criticism highlighted in the article looks more like hate than criticism, to me.