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I'm sorry, but you are just wrong. He's an extremely talented writer and pretty good developer. He blogs about stuff that interests him, he often presents the
by damienkatz 17y ago
I'm sorry, but you are just wrong.
He's an extremely talented writer and pretty good developer. He blogs about stuff that interests him, he often presents the newcomers point of view, he rarely claims to be an expert on the topics he's writing about. And sometimes he gets it wrong, but he sparks lots of discussion and more people are enlightened.
I honestly don't understand the why people think it's cool to dump on Jeff Atwood.
- jeremymcanally 17y agoBecause he (and to an extent, Spolsky) get a rather large contingency of things wrong. And then I hear people repeat those things, a lot. Even if it totally contradicts their actual experience. "I must be doing it wrong because this guy who has no real experience or projects to recommend him said so." It's dumb. He's like the Paris Hilton of programming bloggers: he's famous for being famous. Outside of that, he seems like a nice guy. And Stack Overflow is a tremendous project. I just think his blog is a dangerous cesspool of ignorance sometimes.
- dinkumthinkum 17y agoI just worry that "extremely talented" dangers on being too charitable.