It's very short and not at all in-depth, but this was my favorite comment. It was one of the greatest troll shutdowns I've ever seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
In that thread the pg - cperciva exchange is exemplary. cperciva is concise and blunt, someone else suggests softening his delivery, and pg replies "actually, if someone is wrong about math you probably should tell him so."
The best part is, he ended up being justified in his self confidence. He was talking about his company Tarsnap, which still seems to be going strong 13 years later, and now has Stripe as a customer.
