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- PieSquared 18y agoHeheh. What's a metadeveloper? A developer who develops developers? Also, I'm not surprised that people like PG or Joel get annoyed at the "barbs that get thrown at them". I imagine that writing essays (or blog posts) takes considerable effort; so, then, I would be rather upset if I had been put so much effort and care into something, just to have someone say: "Stop being fanboys! Let me call bullshit on PG this time. Etc Etc Etc." It's just rude, and unpleasant to readers and writers. I try to be a bit more considerate when disagreeing.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoI wouldn't assume, as this author suggests, that PG and Spolsky are blogging less frequently because of the tenor of their reception. Perhaps they're just really busy. One of them is running a company and a popular site while composing a new version of Lisp, the other is running a company and a weekly podcast while co-developing a site... And those are just their publicly known activities.