The difference is that Hacker News does not have Commenting Standards that state number of > to use for quoting, unlike his company which probably had Coding St

The difference is that Hacker News does not have Commenting Standards that state number of > to use for quoting, unlike his company which probably had Coding Standards stating number of whitespaces to use. Working with code written by 3 people if one of them used 4 whitsepaces, other used 2 and 3rd used tabs is just terrible.