[pyre]

  > Clearly the moral of the story is: "Don't claim that
  > X sucks unless you are are damn sure".

More like: "If you say something that upsets people, they will spend a lot of time and effort to display their ignorance in an effort to prove you wrong -- as if you had insulted their very being -- even though you just made and honest mistake." I read the original article, and I didn't see it as an attack on Nginx, or Nginx's SSL support. He ran some benchmarks and said, "Wow, those numbers suck."

  > Don't expect to people be nice if you are wrong.

I read the HN comments here and on the original post, and I don't remember anyone saying anything about cyphers. The people that were 'not nice' were also wrong. Would that excuse the author of the post, from turning around and being 'not nice' to those people because they are wrong?