[was_hellbanned]

It's like an all-inclusive guidebook for how to look down upon others and discredit them internally without any of the messy business of actually communicating with them about "their" issues. Why improve when you can label, isolate, mock, and ostracize?

[benbou09]

I totally agree that this guide would be much more useful with each time a paragraph 'how can you help these people improve themselves'. But I think that as it stands now most people would understand that these are just clichés. In fact, using this as a guide to look down on other people would be the behavior of an 'Agitator'.

[Aaronontheweb]

Author here.

One piece of feedback I really liked from this comment thread was providing some guidance on how to get better at reading someone else's code. I've made an issue out of that (code illiteracy) in a few blog posts before and I think that HN commenter is right.

I think I'd like to do a few posts on how to overcome some of these traits - beginning with reading code.

[banachtarski]

That's actually the tone I read in this article unfortunately. Didn't care too much for it.

[cema]

  guidebook for how to look down upon others

Not necessarily "others", and that's the most useful part, I think. (And not to "look down" but simply to recognize the traits.)