Since we're getting meta on the post, I find the tone to be haughty and demeaning. "I’ll spare him the embarrassment of being named, or of linking to his proje

Since we're getting meta on the post, I find the tone to be haughty and demeaning. "I’ll spare him the embarrassment of being named, or of linking to his project. Instead, I’m just going to call him a student. (No, I’m not a professor.) This 'student'..." Why was this needed? What purpose did it serve the greater article except for the author to espouse their own superiority? This kind of stuff needs to get the hell out of engineering. It turns away potentially many brilliant people that could join the field but fear the rejection by peers.