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I didn't get his diss of Joel Spolsky... I thought Jeff Atwood and Joel worked together?
by Ozzie_osman 7y ago
I didn't get his diss of Joel Spolsky... I thought Jeff Atwood and Joel worked together?
- santoshalper 7y agoThey didn't back then. This article is 12 years old. Apparently they squashed the beef.
- true_religion 7y agoThe squashed it pretty quickly too since in 6 months they launched StackOverflow together.
- endorphone 7y agoIn the era it was kind of a thing to publicly and loudly disagree with other very public people. That beef fed attention to all parties. In the end of that post Jeff got special treatment from PG, and we know he ended up starting StackOverflow with Spolsky. Love all around.
- yesenadam 7y agoIn 1884 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote A Humble Remonstrance in Longman's Magazine, which explained to Henry James that James totally misunderstood the nature of fiction and art. James couldn't help admiring it, and they became very good friends. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30598/30598-h/30598-h.htm#page148 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30598/30598-h/30598-h.htm#pag... "The whole secret is that no art does “compete with life.” Man’s one method, whether he reasons or creates, is to half-shut his eyes against the dazzle and confusion of reality. The arts, like arithmetic and geometry, turn away their eyes from the gross, coloured and mobile nature at our feet, and regard instead a certain figmentary abstraction."