My only real complaint is that he's addressing a particular person here. In his shoes I would have anonymized the source of the text and maybe blended material from a few different people. I'd rather the individual didn't accidentally recognize their words.

Other than that, I think I'm ok with people making exasperated rants. For those of us who actually understand the topic or have experience of teaching, I think a rant like this can at least be funny, and often can be cathartic. One shouldn't howl at the noobs, but howling at the moon seems fine by me.

I think it's also helpful for novices to see the occasional bile-dump like this. The question comes across to me as kinda lazy. The querent never really took the time to understand the core technologies and instead just spent a few months implementing broken stuff. But rather than think it through, he just waves away an expert answer as "kind of silly". A piece like this can help novices see how frustrating and self-defeating that kind of laziness is. I know I've benefited from seeing others get roasted for mistakes I could well have made.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10212003

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