There is one thing which is completely unrelated to contents of the article that puzzles me. The article is quite long and if it wasn't for being at the top of HN, I would never dare to read it and I believe, people are as lazy as me when it comes to long posts.

But, the article did came from 1 to 200+ points and the thing which I wish to know is who were the early readers when the article was at 0 - 20 points. I mean even though writing style is pretty interesting but seeing the length of the article, I would be pretty much discouraged to go through the whole of it, if it had less points.

So the interesting thing to know is what makes the early readers to upvote something. Would they indeed go through whole of the text before upvoting or would they impressed just by few ideas in beginning, and may be just bookmark / pocket it.