No matter who gives this observation, the presentation will always have a patronizing tone. It’s really the discussion here on HN that’s curing it, which is fi

No matter who gives this observation, the presentation will always have a patronizing tone. It’s really the discussion here on HN that’s curing it, which is fine. Someone had to get us the meat before we could cook it. There’s a lot of consensus here and good counter points that aren’t all damning (half it can be chalked up to inexperience, or effort vs value debates, eg TDD, impressionable developers, etc).