How would you feel if you read the same piece on a microsoft site with constant interjections about how you can do amazing stuff with excel now?<p>Would you find the comments here &#x27;tiresome&#x27; and make a passive aggressive comment about how irritating and uninteresting those commenters are compared to this microsoft guy?<p>I find the piece really fascinating, but filling an otherwise excellently written article on a really fascinating historical figure with what is blatantly product placement is frustrating, and guess what - people get to comment on it on a comment site. If you find the comments tiring, don&#x27;t read them.<p>And note what your comment is doing - you&#x27;re meta-commenting on tiresomeness, how riveting! Perhaps we can have another meta level and then... they&#x27;ll be interesting? ;)<p>Also just to clarify - are you claiming that Wolfram doesn&#x27;t self-promote? I&#x27;d suggest re-reading the piece if you don&#x27;t agree.<p>I was thinking the same thing as the top commenter here, and was glad to see that I wasn&#x27;t the only one who noticed it (I wasn&#x27;t aware there was a tendency towards disdain - probably justified - for Wolfram here beforehand actually.)<p>Having said all that, it&#x27;s a fascinating piece once you filter out that noise!