That would be a more apt comparison if this blog post hadn't been part of an ongoing conversation Patrick and I had been having with Colin, not all of which HN is aware of.
> an ongoing conversation Patrick and I had been having with Colin, not all of which HN is aware of
The knowledge that there's missing context, which was provided in some sort of back room inside-baseball hn-elites secret discussion to which I was not a party and will never be granted access, kind of makes me wish the article had never been posted in the first place.
"Here's my article - which you'll never understand, because you weren't there, because you're not cool enough". Great.