All I heard it from your post is a lot vitriol and hatred.
I don't know who Seth Ladd is. I looked at the page and it skipped over his title and went straight to the text.
I don't care if Google paid him, or if the works for Google, or if he wrote because he was forced to at gunpoint by Colombian mafia. It doesn't matter. It is a good article and I enjoyed reading it. It is very well done, it shows how the IDE works, explains some concepts about Dart.
I can see maybe if you had direct proof that he was forced to do this against his will by Google, ok we could maybe discuss the implications of it. That still wouldn't make that a bad article.
That's not a strawman. It would be a strawman if the GP characterized the original comment as suggesting that, but it's not. It's saying that even this facetiously extreme example still would not disqualify the content of the post from being useful/interesting/whatever.
I don't know who Seth Ladd is. I looked at the page and it skipped over his title and went straight to the text.
I don't care if Google paid him, or if the works for Google, or if he wrote because he was forced to at gunpoint by Colombian mafia. It doesn't matter. It is a good article and I enjoyed reading it. It is very well done, it shows how the IDE works, explains some concepts about Dart.
I can see maybe if you had direct proof that he was forced to do this against his will by Google, ok we could maybe discuss the implications of it. That still wouldn't make that a bad article.