Yeah, salting definitely isn't bad, in fact it's actually essential. What the author is saying is that it's not enough - salting won't save you when your attack

Yeah, salting definitely isn't bad, in fact it's actually essential. What the author is saying is that it's not enough - salting won't save you when your attacker can test 10s or 100s of thousands of hashes a sec. The article could have been phrased better.