Eh, those downvoted comments were from me and one was totally deserved because it was awful and I left it there to accumulate negative karma as punishment for making it. The other is a bit relevant here and was initially upvoted. It likely got downvotes by association with the idiotic comment.

Here's a more upthread link with a bit more context for the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8506560