jwz's response is worth reading as well: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/

jwz's response is worth reading as well: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/ "It's such a strange article, in that it's mostly favorable to my point of view but with such a breathless amazement to it, like he's just discovered an actual unicorn or something. "Look, everybody! Here's a hacker who actually accomplished things and yet he doesn't fetishize the latest fads that I and all of my friends make our living writing about!" There's this tone to the thing like he just can't imagine that someone like me can exist."