[carlmcqueen]

Having to ask people be kind about your code on HN is such a shame of reality to me. Half of brilliance is having your working version, used by many people. You had working code that brought reddit to so many reddit users every day that was better than what the official app of reddit provided.

Some of the 'code' running massively profitable departments in finance are spreadsheets, on shared drives, with thousands of linked cells thought up by a brilliant employee who left the company five or six years in the past.

I wish I was kidding.

Thanks for how great you kept apollo.

[graypegg]

I would love if we all agreed to value the joy of building on here. Not saying it needs to be nauseating positive, but just a default expectation of comments like “wow! This is cool, here are some things I might have done differently”

Show HN is always really close to to that ideal. One of the reasons I like this place.