I, like pg and hopefully other Hacker News readers, am pretty sick of every story about something cool being immediately derailed by a know-it-all in an industry dismissing the innovation as "not cool enough". pg calls it middlebrow dismissal[1]. Rather than being treated as an imperfect launching-off point for further innovation, everything has to be world-changing perfect to have a reasonably sane comments section.

I'm actually glad this thread got pushed down, so maybe some actually informative discussion can rise up rather than an analysis of how minutely the people behind this screwed up.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920