Flippant replies to "controversial" posts that made it big on HN always seem to do well here. People on HN like a catfight as much as anyone else, and if someone wants some free pageviews off the back of that, good luck to them.

If anything needs to be fixed, it's the idiots on HN who vote up response posts like this, but that's democracy for you.

Ruby thinks it can... it thinks it can... it thinks it can. Maybe if it pretends "hard enough" that it is fast some day it will be. I'm just joking ;) but there is some truth to that.