An open letter to mark-snyder: You assail your 'superstar programmer' without having informed us of what it is to be a 'superstar programmer'. This leaves you

An open letter to mark-snyder: You assail your 'superstar programmer' without having informed us of what it is to be a 'superstar programmer'. This leaves your screed without any assertions. You could have first built up a mental model of what a 'superstar programmer' is, and then illustrated how the traits that make them a 'superstar' are in fact harmful. That's ok though, you are a sloppy thinker. You make a series of very obvious criticisms against an anonymous bozo to which you attach the label of 'superstar programmer', thinking this is somehow actually a criticism of what other people think of when they think of a superstar programmer. That's ok, you skipped the day your philosophy 101 professor covered the definition of a 'straw man'. In the end, you are insulting your readers more than the 'superstar', since to think that this person was a 'superstar' would mean you reader is full-blown retarded. Perhaps you mean 'superstar' in a pejorative sense, having read the many more well thought out blog posts that have recently been written using this term. Then you are just cribbing off others, without really having 'gotten it'. That's ok though, maybe you enjoy being the unrewarded toady to the would-be stars of internet-startup culture. I get it. It is bad to be a poor programmer that also uses poor practices and also has bad social skills and also who stinks. There are 2 things I would like to ask, though: 1. Why do we need a blog post saying 'it is bad to be bad and stink'. If we need that, I invite you to read my blog posts, entitled "eating, pros and cons" and "blog posts, what this one says" 2. What do you think people mean when they say 'superstar'? Oh, and it was quite hard to refrain from using the term 'superstar blogger' in this comment. I hope you appreciated my restraint!