Thanks for your words of defense, etler. A lot of the criticism of my original post was valid, though, so I addressed it by rephrasing and stressing out that code quality still matters: https://github.com/mislav/mislav.github.com/commit/e07907966...

You were right, however, that the post was never about code quality or code comments. It was only about "history's great, yo; here's what you can do with it".