Dan Piponi, in his post, called for scale questions in interviews, suggesting that whoever worked on the feature at Apple would not have been hired if they had been asked those types of questions.

I found that position non-constructive and wanted to counter it by mentioning that fractals could hint at why the length was so large.

It is hard to predict how others will read my comment beforehand, and I apologize for not meeting the friendliness bar here on Hacker News.