Rather the opposite; people have hard time understanding what he is talking about because most applications that people use already handle ctrl-c as author wants, so its not a problem many people encounter often. So its reasonable that people then think its talking about the problem that many are encountering, programs that just swallow ctrl-c without doing anything. This is not helped by author having this bit near the beginning:

> More often than not I find myself having to kill the running process from an external app, such as the shell, after first figuring out what the process ID is.

See for example these sibling threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32369096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32367401