Ah, I was looking at this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287 ...which admittedly doesn't have a great

Ah, I was looking at this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287 ...which admittedly doesn't have a great discussion, but it's not worthless. The one you linked, though, is worth highlighting as a completely useless discussion, due to some meanness (mild as it goes), but mostly just a sad lack of thoughtful commenters, all of whom seemed to think several dozen redundant comments about the OP's headshot on his blog post was valuable feedback. I didn't see any discussion whatsoever on the actual content of the OP.