I found it to be an absolutely fascinating thread. I don't care where it came from. I learned about OpenMP (concise parallelism in C) and the Perl 6 hyper operators by reading it. That's (much) more than I learn from most Hacker News posts these days.

I would love a chance to see the Color founders doing office hours with pg! Or even just pgbot. I can see it now:

  Color guy:  We're building an app that lets you share photos with   
  your mobile phone, with people within 100 feet of you, but it uses 
  your social graph to make sure you see stuff you're interested in.

  pgbot:  WTF?

  Color guy:  I mean, it lets you share pictures that you just took, and   
  people within 100 feet of you will see that you just shared a picture.

  pgbot:  What problem does this solve? If they're 100 feet away, 
  wouldn't they have seen the same thing you saw, or even taken the 
  same picture anyway?

  Color guy: You don't get it, it's mobile... pictures and mobile, 
  together.  Like peanut butter and chocolate.

  pgbot:  Who wants this?

  Color guy:  Well, erm, I mean, erm, that is, aaahhh... um, you 
  know... like, um, aaaghh... well... uhhrrmmmm... college kids.  And 
  hipsters.  And hipster college kids. 

  pgbot: You mean the two classes of people least likely to either A. have 
  money, or b. spend money, unless it's on cheap beer, crappy clothes, 
  or Apple hardware?

  Color guy: But, but...  

  pgbot: Who's going to pay for this?

  Color guy:  Aaaah, well, you see... aaah... umm....

  pgbot: I worry, I worry...