Your comments come across as pretty mean-spirited. Let me rewrite one line for you. You wrote:
> Someday one of your coworkers is going to break it and this code will be trashing the heap. Mysterious memory corruption failures are your destiny.
You could have written something like, "It's possible this code will break in the future and you won't even realize the cause, because it will appear as a mysterious memory corruption failure."
See how I left out a word like "destiny" and took out the whole bit about coworkers? Yeah, much nicer and less personalized.
The point of the post by my fellow HN person was to give you feedback on your communication style.
You obviously have interesting things to say and opinion to share with a fair amount of passion, but the tone detracts from the message, which I find a pity.
It’s not about people being delicate, its about what you value more: saying whatever you feel like saying, or actually getting your point across.
The more inflammatory your tone, the less likely it is that you’ll change anyone’s mind, because they’ll be more likely to dismiss outright whatever you’re saying.
This quote doesn’t exactly make you look like the badass you think you are.. and all over C++ array access. Does that sound like a topic that warrants escalation to confrontational language to you?
> Someday one of your coworkers is going to break it and this code will be trashing the heap. Mysterious memory corruption failures are your destiny.
You could have written something like, "It's possible this code will break in the future and you won't even realize the cause, because it will appear as a mysterious memory corruption failure."
See how I left out a word like "destiny" and took out the whole bit about coworkers? Yeah, much nicer and less personalized.