Understanding it was sarcasm requires taking the time to do more than just skim the article. Or knowing Jason in particular. I made the same mistake of taking i

Understanding it was sarcasm requires taking the time to do more than just skim the article. Or knowing Jason in particular. I made the same mistake of taking it seriously. The assumption that the overwhelming majority of people seeing this post would assume and know it is sarcasm really detracts from using HN as a useful part of one's day. People expect a video link to be labeled as such, why not "sarcasm" as part of the subject? (Answer, might not get as many points or people who know it's sarcasm won't be able to laugh at the "fools" who were taken by it? What if the article had been about best practices in security programming and the person reading it was new to the game? What if it dealt with hashing of passwords and gave the wrong info? How would you expect a beginner to necessarily know that? Where do you draw the line. A few things: "Stay in stealth mode until the last minute." That's his opinion. Nothing screams out if this is his first statement that this is obviously bogus as a strategy. "You need your sleep!" That's actually true. "Steve Jobs didn’t work constantly, Bill Gates had lots of hobbies, Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t tethered to his laptop" From popular culture the above is contradicted. But how do you expect someone who hasn't been following all of this for many years to know that and how do you know if Jason read something that just recently came out (that you didn't) that claims that Bill Gates had lots of hobbies?