I disagree. I appreciate his courage in posting this. As an employer, this won't stop me at all from hiring him. I would definitely think about hiring you though, specially being so condescending as if you have seen it all.
This crosses into personal attack. That's not allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone else may be, so please don't do it in HN comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14038453 .
Just saw this. Yeah, I agree with what you said. Won't happen again.