Thanks for sharing this. We don't like to double-up on posts about one topic on the front page, because that causes the discussion to be fragmented, so I've added the link to the header of the main thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852.

Very few people have their finger on the pulse of a paradigm shift as it's happening - and he was there to capture it at the right place and the right time. Excellent read!