Maybe he didn't see it? No one else responded to the comment either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6727029

It's hard to take many interesting ideas out of this implication of bad faith on Chris's part. Wouldn't it be better to talk about the topic of the post?

I hoped that he would see it when it was cross-posted on his blog's comment section, but I also agree that this tangent is not particularly useful.