Would it feel more relevant if you were familiar with the author's credentials? James Duncan Davidson, among other things, wrote Tomcat and the Java build tool Ant (and got both donated from Sun to the Apache Software Foundation). He wrote or cowrote a number of O'Reilly books on Cocoa and OS X, and contributed a chapter on deployment to the well known Agile Web Development with Rails. All that prior to his budding career as a photographer.
Having that information might make it feel more appropriate in this forum, but I would hope a topic like this, which will affect everyone at some point in their life, would be fair game on HN.
Having that information might make it feel more appropriate in this forum, but I would hope a topic like this, which will affect everyone at some point in their life, would be fair game on HN.