I disagree with "pompous" very much. Rand is many things, but she's very rarely pompous. She's quite down-to-earth.
She's great in that she's concise and accessible. She writes an incredible "gee-whiz" action story.
And, pardon me if this is off the mark, but I've noticed 4 accounts being made in the last hour, all of whom have the same attitude to this conversation, all of whom comment twice. Are these all throwaway accounts? I've never seen something like this happen on Hacker News before.
Her heroes likewise see themselves as ubermensch when they are in reality nothing more than pompous assholes.