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Please write a blog post called "Horrific OOP chimeras" and post a link on HN ...

• ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
  Oh...the stories I could tell... But I have made it a point of personal ethos not to post criticism or polemics, denigrating/excoriating the work of others. I know that could buy me a lot of clicks (and probably some considerable HN Above The Fold time), but I think we have enough negativity and finger-pointing on the Internet. If you read my stuff, you won't see much of that. I may, in a rather vague way, allude to something that gives me a frowny-face, but I don't want that to be part of my "personal brand," so to speak. I do take tremendous personal pride in my work; both coding and writing, and hold myself to a high bar. I may even project that bar onto others (only in some circumstances), but I don't think it's helpful to do so in public. I find it most gratifying to write a "This is how I do this..." post, as opposed to a "This isn't how you should do it..." post.