You could also have guessed it when you noticed it was a kid student showing up (and off) with a lengthy critic on the historical evolution of UNIX tools and others OSes and tools that he discovered a couple of years ago, while you possibly were using them and watching them evolve while he was still in his father's bollocks (and some of us (not me) were working on UNIXes while his father was a kid). You know what to expect in this case, especially if you remember having produced the same kind of over-confident and yet uninformed rant in your days :-) (I do :-D )
There's irony in people being insulted by arrogant tone and loudly proclaiming they stopped reading something.
It may be that the author is not actually a self-important asshole, but starting an article like that makes it look like he likely is.
> The provocative tone has been used just to attract your attention.