To summarise the previous 498-comment-long discussion of this article on HN: this is a bad article. I'd normally try to give the benefit of the doubt and not o

To summarise the previous 498-comment-long discussion of this article on HN: this is a bad article. I'd normally try to give the benefit of the doubt and not open with such a negative assessment, but the opening paragraph of the article is so unbelievably arrogant in tone that I really find it difficult.