You clearly misunderstood my post. It may have been badly phrased.

What I meant isn't "don't share it". I meant "get it right before you share it".

I'd have thought the fact I spent a significant amount of time reviewing his implementation and giving well-meant comments would have made that clear. I have no interest in suppressing anyones development -- the more everyone learns, the better for everyone. And do I care about that.

However:

1. HN submissions are 1:many communication. Like, say, mailing lists. For which I've been taught that the sender should make an effort to send a good message. freddiearch didn't put in that effort (see post #11098621). I care about HN, and I'd prefer to see high-quality articles here.

2. Beginners learning about new techniques and then immediately going on to write a low-quality tutorial is a very common phenomenon on the internet. It makes it unnecessarily harder for other beginners, who can't tell. The code didn't work and had several major flaws. It's just not good code to learn Ansible from. (Except for freddiearch of course -- writing bad code, then improving it, is part of learning. Nothing wrong with that! Everyone starts small!)

(@freddiearch: If you read this: I really hope I didn't discourage you from learning about Ansible or anything.)