The entire post reeks of ignorance. I don't understand how it got to the front page.
And as someone who had the grave misfortune of having some experience in scientific code, all I can do is laugh at the OP's link. Yeah sure, scientist's are great at programming. I say let them off at it, because I want nothing to do with it. I value my sanity too much :)
Online forums are generally filled with programmers who have never written anything large and complex.
The whole internet is amateur hour. I just got caught in a daydream, pretending like HN was above the noise for a while. Maybe it was.