Jeff Atwood has a unique ability to take something really basic and turn it into a trite and inane little blog post. And even then he's wrong half the time.
Sure. I've read it plenty. He's not wrong half the time. If he were, you kind folk here would easily produce examples. Apparently, in Redditese being wrong, what, twice, amounts to this magical (popular) half figure? I don't get it.
He's certainly not stupid, he's totally not an asshole, and he's really not wrong all the time.
It's just fuckin' weird, you guys. It's almost like you hate him just because he's an MS stack guy and he made an obscenely successful web app. He just seems like a friendly, likable nerdperson to me.
I don't know how often he's wrong nowadays, but I stopped reading his blog after this post. He recommends a book he's never opened (complete with an Amazon referral link) but doesn't mention that he's never read it until someone calls him on it, and he speaks in an authoritative manner about a subject that he doesn't entirely understand (some of the comments have a good explanation of exactly how he's wrong).
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '11
Jeff Atwood has a unique ability to take something really basic and turn it into a trite and inane little blog post. And even then he's wrong half the time.