Cut 'em some slack. They screwed up, hopefully they've learned their lesson, apparently they've found someone (so it doesn't look like they were hurt too badly), and the data they post here may help other startups find people.

It was a slightly unnecessarily snarky comment, you're right -- the data actually wasn't too bad.

It's generally about that hard (many startups pay recruiters $20k+ to recruit a single good developer), and they apparantly succeeded. Good for them.