Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here
How about we leave age/sex/race out of it all and accept them into the community as peers and equals?<p>I'm all about encouragement, but if we treat them differently because of age, we are just sheltering them from the real world (the Internet hardly counts there, I know). The Internet may not be the safest place to be taught how to accept criticism, but it is a lot easier to take (and more productive) when the attacks aren't personal and instead directed at an app.