I didn't find the 42Floors post be asserting "Non Coders Bad." He seemed to be after the increasing number of "founders" claiming to be technical. From your pos

I didn't find the 42Floors post be asserting "Non Coders Bad." He seemed to be after the increasing number of "founders" claiming to be technical. From your post, I doubt you'd claim to be technical when talking to a potential co-founder. Perhaps he didn't do a good job of directing his [shared (see the comments)] frustrations. Also, I can assure you that tossing unfamiliar (foreign to your opponent's discipline) terminology over the fence, is not a game you want to play with an engineer of any sort :)