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'If you've read any of Ted's past stuff or followed his startups at all, you'd probably find plenty of evidence that he's a very skilled programmer.' Actually,

• gruseom 17y ago
  Oh come on. "Any of Ted's past stuff"? I've read a lot more than any, and all I remember are a lot of sarcastic rants alleging stupidity on the part of others. I played along for a while, thinking that the author had a minor gift for satire, until it became clear that he was writing the same thing over and over again and never going deeper. But there's a more substantial point here. You can't tell from blog posts whether someone is a skilled programmer. You can only tell that by working with them or with their code. I haven't done either, so what I said was true. The gap between blogging about programming and actually being skilled at it is no different than the general gap between talking about any X and doing X (which is one of the most noticeable properties of the human race).
  • Hexstream 17y ago
    "You can't tell from blog posts whether someone is a skilled programmer." I can tell Steve Yegge is a great programmer because of his blog posts ;P But I guess he's somewhat of an exception.