People are very critical of Jeff because it's very easy to be critical of him. Not that it's necessarily justifiable; it's just that "everyone else is doing it"

People are very critical of Jeff because it's very easy to be critical of him. Not that it's necessarily justifiable; it's just that "everyone else is doing it". It's kind of like the old maxim about how nobody every got fired for going with IBM / Microsoft. He's done some good things, and some stupid things; I think a lot of people have probably gotten started reading up online on their own because of Coding Horror, and anything that gets the 9-to-5 set doing some extracurricular reading can't be all bad.