The story was written as a quick response to an email on a list, not an article for the front page of hackernews. Please excuse the obvious errors (of which I am sure there are quite a few)
Aha I had assumed that it was an error on the part of the quotee -- this was not the case then? Either way, no judgement on my part, I'm not pedantic about such things.
I was in the terminal at the time and broke my workflow to reply, I was still in 'sudo' mindset not 'pseudo' mindset
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Sorry, I just realized I misread the entire comment and assumed it hostile, my bad!