There's a difference between s#%*posting (frowned upon) and irony made with the potential to spawn thoughtful discussion. In this case, the joke is a sarcastic way of asking "does the thesis generalize to modern knowledge work?"

So please don't post comments pretending to know the intent of someone else's post.

Given that your comment history is primarily an anthology of throwaway one-liners, I'd go easy on casting those stones.

Please don't assume what we all want to see on HN.