[raygunomical]

Did you read the second half of the article? It's about how the author overcame his urge to blurt out the first compliment he could think of. He learned to dig deeper and find something about the person that's truly commendable.

[zobzu]

Which proves the point. Trying hard to find compliments is at best not genuine (and eventually it can be "cute"), at worst manipulative.

In most cases it's also easy to point out. People smart enough to do that properly are rare. (and usually manipulative :)