Because 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 c

Because 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.