It's relevant because it was voted to the top by the Hacker News community. That's why.

nope - it's Wednesday. Or possibly even Thursday, depending on your part of the world, but definitely not tuesday.

A little colorful drama never hurts. You can only read so many articles about Lisp...

Well I dunno about that .____.

It's relevant as many here are entrepreneurs. There is a very good lesson here about proper social media etiquette for companies. There are an incredible multitude of ways this situation could have been handled better, especially on a forum as public as Twitter.