As a programmer you will be in the situation many times when you write something that has to be a certain way for reason (like portability) and someone won't see it (possibly a more senior person). That should not feel bad at all, or discouraging; there is no egg on your face!

Or, you might not even write that something yourself; you just understand why it is that way and leave it alone in the refactoring that you are doing; then you get a review comment like "you can get rid of this from here", and you have to respond "no you can't, because ...".

Don’t worry, everyone who reads the comment will read yours as well, which is itself interesting.

> Yeah, feels bad. I'm super happy so many are enjoying the article, and this situation can't take too much away from that, but man.. discouraging for sure.

Again, don’t worry too much about that. The story got upvoted to the front page and lots of people will read it, that’s what matters. Not that a misguided post got a bunch of upvotes.