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If John Gruber had not invented Markdown, he would be very high on my least favorite humans list.

• rmrfrmrf 14y ago
  Because he holds Apple in high regard?
• Karunamon 14y ago
  Because he happens to fanboy for Apple? I can think of a lot better reasons to hate someone...
  • jlgreco 14y ago
    I think you give him far to little credit.
  • psweber 14y ago
    Oh, I don't haaaate him. I just find his opinions obnoxious, and it doesn't seem like people will stop listening to him any time soon.
  • forrestthewoods 14y ago
    He's extremely popular but also manipulates truths to tell fabrications and outright lies. I think anyone who behaves in such a manner is actively harming society by discouraging intelligent discourse. This type of behavior is seeping into many facets of life both big (politics) and small (mobile phones). He's basically FoxNews for Apple.
    • tehwalrus 14y ago
      LOL, I agree. I subscribed to his RSS feed a while ago, and I flick through his headlines with amusement. He seems to get very offended if people diss Apple, and then happily reblogs similar nonsense aimed at Android or Windows 8 - classic partisan confirmation bias. Occasionally he also posts something which is not "apple politics" which is interesting, so for now he stays on my list of subscriptions.
• chappi42 14y ago
  invented yes, but then totally neglected it (while retaining the Markdown name)
• blasdel 14y ago
  You'd have murdered him by now had you ever read Markdown.pl or run into its hundreds of bugs and corner cases