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I'm not saying it's a great title but is he trolling? Rails has a popular saying: "fat models, skinny controllers". This title is a riff on that. No body issues

• knowtheory 14y ago
  Yes, he is trolling HN with the title, because you can get sadly predictable conversations like this one. The title is specifically intended to be a double entendre (and kind of a clever one). If you really want to disassemble this whole thing, it's the clever use of "diet" that makes the pun.
  • jbigelow76 14y ago
    >Yes, he is trolling HN with the title, because you can get sadly predictable conversations like this one. The article was published on the 37signals blog. I doubt DHH considers HN the center of the tech universe, given anecdotes of his general disposition I can't imagine him thinking "just wait until the HN crowd gets a load of this title".
    • knowtheory 14y ago
      Okay, let me temper my statement a bit. DHH is good at marketing, he knows how to stir the pot. He may have not specifically targeted this at HN, but it's hard to believe that he did not assume that this would not make it to HN.
  • equalarrow 14y ago
    How is this trolling?!?!? In Rails world, the topic of fat models (lots of impl methods, code, etc) comes up all the time. This isn't trolling. It's called being creative vs. "Use different code to remove more code from your models". Gimmie a break.. And yes, like another poster said, I doubt DHH uses any thought or loses sleep over how HN will pick up the post and tear it down. He created a great framework, has built up an inspiring company, and wanted to share some thoughts. Doesn't go any further than that in my mind.