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I disagree with that, because this is "the duct tape programmer" himself, having a say in the matter.

• nostrademons 17y ago
  His say basically is that we should all stop talking about programming and actually program things, because we'll all learn a lot more about what actually works in practice rather than what we think might work. This is incredibly good advice which I can't seem to follow myself. I'm on HN during the workday instead of getting my damn CSS layouts to resize correctly, after all.
  • tptacek 17y ago
    You ever look at jwz's markup or CSS? He's solved that problem by bypassing it entirely. Go work on something fun.
    • nostrademons 17y ago
      His pages also tend to be butt-ugly. ;-) I get paid to make things pretty, or rather to take the pretty designs that interaction/visual designers come up with and make them actually work, across all browsers, maintainably, with a minimum number of bytes. In return, when I'm not wrestling with CSS I can play with massive quantities of data and a few zillion machines. Not a bad trade-off IMHO.
      • amix 17y ago
        In return when JWZ is finished hacking he hangs in his own nightclub. Not a bad trade-of IMHO ;)
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    • samlittlewood 17y ago
      cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/