<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=vais" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=vais</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vais" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vais</a><p>Didn't sound like a distasteful attitude to me.  Just believes in his own work.