We do. Your post is still noise. This is a valuable article that most people here have not seen - I hadn't, even though I have seen others from this author. Which are all excellent, by the way. I upvoted this submission because I love seeing such detailed systems articles on the frontpage.
I agree. I enjoy finding detailed articles like this when I come to Hacker News. Also, even though this article is old to a lot of people I have found a new blog to follow with what appears to be well written articles.