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?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.