It could be both, and we should investigate both cases. Why should he get a clear pass?

>If the blog post was by a node contribute, would you cry foul for that as well?

If it was skewed towards node and/or he didn't mention it, then sure.

>how about giving some counter points against the substance of the blog instead of just attacking the author's credibility based on where he is employed.

The blog post has no substance to begin with. The comparison is bogus and the assumptions he makes do not stand. There are already about 20 comments in this thread as to why this is.

I don't know what he's insinuating, but looking at the code and liking neither technology the bench does indeed look completely inaccurate (it's not even comparing apples and oranges, it's comparing bananas and clams) if not willingly deceptive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5460267

And that is when you realize that you have such a powerful, flexible framework like .NET under you fingertips with amazing performance like we’ve shown today.