Is Paul Graham stupider than ESR?
Paul Graham, yet again, proves himself to be yet another completely brain damaged spastic asshole who thinks, that because due to a freak accident of nature, he actually is different from the average slashdot teatsucker or has something worthwhile to say.
The man’s stupidity and ignorance is astounding. The crowd he preaches to is, if that’s at all possible, even stupider. Analogies to symbolise their relationship is perhaps the fundamentalist rabid Muslim preacher advocating death and destruction to a bunch of ill-educated rabid followers. Or perhaps the insane right wing Christian fatshit insisting that anyone pro-choice likes to eat babies to a group of midwest fatfucks intent on lynching brown people and damning random strangers to burn in a variety of hells for not accepting a baby jesus buttplug as their lord and saviour.
So it’s of no surprise to see a variety of blogs proclaim his genius. He is, after all, rummaging about to find their miniscule genitalia, and proceeding to tug it with enough force to elicit happy noises.
Where does one start? This man is so stupid, so ignorant, so eager to probe exactly how far up his own sphincter he can crawl that it’s amazing there’s anything outside of it.
Lets see, he claims that Firefox is better than IE because the people who develop it do it in their spare time and with religious fervour. Gosh, you haven’t spoken to a microsofty recently have you? These people have just as much passion, if not more, for what they do as the average dirty hippie whose poo you’re so desperate to eat. In fact, for a wide variety of opensores, you can get better service, better software, better documentation, and more professionalism overall by instead finding a commercial version that does the same thing. The converse is not true quite as often, or many more commercial endeavours would be killed by their open source variants. Certainly, anyone trying to select a product would be dimwitted in the extreme to choose one run by a hobbyist who is ruled by whimsy and mood and fears social contact and views professionalism as an insult to his artistic sense.
The blogging gibberish he spouts is also astounding. How can one man be so thoroughly ignorant and know so little of the real world? Give me a professional unbiased educated journalist any day over your average armchair blogger. Most blogs are a disturbing mix of zealotry, incompetence, ignorance, and randomly strung together smattering of incoherent prejudices. Lowering the barrier to entry does not improve quality, it lowers it. Some good stuff will obviously get in, but the vast majority will be far worse. Whether the former outweighs the latter is certainly not a forgone conclusion.
I’m also baffled by the amazing leap of faith he makes by assuming that if you work on opensource, you like what you do more than if you were paid (commercial). How many baby kittens did this filthy animal have to consume in order to achieve such enlightenment? If only he’d attempted a scientific approach and logical argument instead of mindless bloodletting, he might have actually preached to more than the choir.
The working at home stuff is also bullshit. Antisocial misfits perhaps work better at home. It certainly is harder than working at an office, it requires more discipline, but it is certainly not qualitatively superior to an office environment. The lone hacker bullshit works for certain things, but does not for most things you’d want to build a business out of. Maybe he lucked out by flinging feces to the wind and had them land at the right scat fetishist, but it’s certainly not a model for success.
In fact, a mere reality check is sufficient to prove that this man is so out of touch with reality that it’s amazing nobody has chained him up and tossed him in a mental institute for all the harm he causes society. I dare anyone to find me a successful open source business that operates with nothing more than hobbyists faffing about at home at random. While that’s a fine start, the demands of the real world soon make themselves felt in terms of an increased need for coordination and a more definitive plan and roadmap than the nearest shiny object.
I can but hope that this man is blessed with a king midas touch of shit, and that every startup he ever touches will crash and burn, as it has no choice but to do if anyone involved actually takes his deranged spastic twitching as anything more than a joke that has long lost any humour value. Shame on anyone who takes him seriously.
August 6th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
YES! first post? :)
August 6th, 2005 at 5:11 pm
One can stipulate everything in your article, yet still not be close to proving the title!
August 6th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Shit, shame is on me. But i nevertheless subscribe to some of his thoughts in his latest blog. I am reading uglier java blogs on a daily basis, so Paul cant surprise me in a negative way. I assume i just earned an indirect bile point, which is more i can demand.
Wow, hopefully i can solve the maths question this time, its 0 + 91, now this is really stupid.
August 6th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Some of Grahams points do make sense but it’s the crap he puts round it that make him look so bad.
August 6th, 2005 at 6:33 pm
What is it about Java that turns smart people into prissy, pissy primadonnas? I think it has a lot to do with reducing the amount of thought that has to go into producing code; one can just pull down one’s pants, squat, and leave a little gem for someone else to fix.
I am one of those “someone else” people, and I’m *pissed*. That’s why I’ve enjoyed the BileBlog for so long.
My problem is this: the so-called “Java professionals” are among the most vain, clueproof fuckheads the IT world has ever seen. Seemingly obsessed with creating vast, towering edifices that will wash away with the next high tide, they are unable to imagine doing any nontrivial work without a clustered Oracle instance, a J2EE container, and a guarantee that noone will call them on their bullshit.
One of the few joys in my wretched life is doing exactly that — watching them squirm once I’ve pointed out the vast waste, repetition of effort, and sheer stupidity of the bloated, inherently unreliable applications these sad, sad people inflict on their customers. It takes a while, too. Usually you have to literally dip their pointy noses into their own droppings with a fully sketched out use case or ten before it dawns on them that they sat down and started writing code LONG before they actually started THINKING about the problem they were hired to solve.
Open Sores versus Professional is the difference between green and brown shit, and anyone who tells you different is trying to grab your wallet while you are otherwise occupied. At least the Open Sores people are only wasting THEIR time, and not billable hours…
August 6th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
To Hani:
This one will be fun. Wow, where does one begin? First, ass-hat writing style. How old are you? Twelve. I can see where once or twice, throw in a, “somebody is stupid, they are an ass-hat, HA HA”, but every single, blog-entry? Is this what we will expect from professionals? When they go to work, it is all business, but when they come home, they shit on the wall? Normally, a loud, obnoxious, hate-monger is just that; whether it is 9:00am or 6:00pm, still the same person. Say what you will about opensource. Some opensource developers work in the day, come home at night to do something productive. You seem to write out of your ass with the intent to ridicule the productive.
On the article itself and Paul Graham:
Paul Graham is proposing ‘possible’ solutions to possible problems. Is he right? Maybe? He has written at least two books, created ViaWeb(Yahoo Stores), is now working with a team of possible startups. Where is your listing on amazon.com? I couldn’t find it.
What is your agenda against opensource? Open source is so way beyond pervasive that there is no point in hating it. Saying you hate opensource software is like saying, you hate to breathe. Do you hate the web? Isn’t the web based on open-technology? There are some 8 billion web pages out there? Do you hate those too? Do you use FTP servers, telnet? And, didn’t you or do you still contribute to opensource projects? What kind of logic is that? You commit to projects and then ridicule the entire concept? If there was a barrier to people’s write to submit web-content, would the web exist today?
“I dare anyone to find me a successful open source business that operates with nothing more than hobbyists faffing about at home at random”
How about Sun? Your buddy, Jonathan Schwartz wants to opensource all software produced by Sun.
To be honest, I am glad you are just spewing out garbage and not actually doing something productive; who knows what it will end-up like. Do you ridicule your users, as well?
Your blog is fun to read, like Paris Hilton is fun to watch. You tune-in to watch her trip over a pig or play with horse; but at the end of day, will anyone take her seriously? So, have fun, some of us have work to do.
Sorry for coming out swinging, it is just getting old.
August 6th, 2005 at 11:03 pm
“Paris Hilton is fun to watch”? Dude you need to get out more. And any moron can write a book, especially a tech book. How many can you count that are actually GOOD?
August 7th, 2005 at 1:10 am
“Your blog is fun to read, like Paris Hilton is fun to watch. You tune-in to watch her trip over a pig or play with horse; but at the end of day, will anyone take her seriously?”
My clown takes her seriously..
August 7th, 2005 at 2:57 am
“Paul Graham is proposing ‘possible’ solutions to possible problems. Is he right? Maybe? He has written at least two books, created ViaWeb(Yahoo Stores), is now working with a team of possible startups. Where is your listing on amazon.com? I couldn’t find it.”
One does not need to be a tailor to see that the emperor has no clothes. A pair of functioning eyes and two working brain cells will do just fine.
“What is your agenda against opensource? Open source is so way beyond pervasive that there is no point in hating it. Saying you hate opensource software is like saying, you hate to breathe. Do you hate the web? Isn’t the web based on open-technology? There are some 8 billion web pages out there? Do you hate those too? Do you use FTP servers, telnet? And, didn’t you or do you still contribute to opensource projects? What kind of logic is that? You commit to projects and then ridicule the entire concept? If there was a barrier to people’s write to submit web-content, would the web exist today?”
Note that Hani does not (to my knowledge) “hate Open Source” or “ridicult the entire concept”. The irony is that he is ridiculing people who, by spastically flailing about while speaking in blasphemous tongues uttering “OpenSource will save thee! Prepare for the saviour that is FOSS!”, are by sheer ignorance in effect doing the OpenSource concept and community a great disservice. In other words, the opposite of what you describe.
“How about Sun? Your buddy, Jonathan Schwartz wants to opensource all software produced by Sun.”
Your reading instruments needs tweaking, because that is exactly the opposite of what Hani described, since Sun is *NOT* a business that “operates with nothing more than hobbyists faffing about at home at random”.
“To be honest, I am glad you are just spewing out garbage and not actually doing something productive; who knows what it will end-up like. Do you ridicule your users, as well?”
As far as I know Hani does not ridicule users, not even those that would typically deserve it.
“Your blog is fun to read, like Paris Hilton is fun to watch. You tune-in to watch her trip over a pig or play with horse; but at the end of day, will anyone take her seriously? So, have fun, some of us have work to do.”
Considering your demonstrated inability to read and understand English I would suggest that you invest your time in something that only requires physical strength. Since you enjoy ms Hilton that is certainly one field of work that you could succeed in. Quite lucrative too, I hear. Good luck!
August 7th, 2005 at 6:04 am
A >buisiness< that operates with [...] >faffing about at random<. Get a fucking dictionary guys (yep, they carry colloquialisms too) - the terms ‘business’ and ‘faffing about’ are in fact polar opposites.
So there!
August 7th, 2005 at 9:34 am
Some recent Hani Posts:
Is Paul Graham stupider than ESR?
Death to Apache
jakarta style gurus
toilet fishing with JBoss 4.0
AlphaWorks is a scam
I hate you all
JRoller: Continuing a fine tradition of sucking
“..One does not need to be a tailor to see that the emperor has no clothes. A pair of functioning eyes and two working brain cells will do just fine…”
Yea, you are right, giving an oppurtunity to graduate students or others to start a business when they wouldn’t have been given the time of day by a bank is exactly what you described. Why don’t we just drop all aid to third-world countries, drop all cancer research, because the US or other industrial nations are just playing the role of the emperor.
“…Note that Hani does not (to my knowledge) “hate Open Source” or “ridicult the entire concept”. The irony is that he is ridiculing people who, by spastically flailing about while speaking in blasphemous tongues uttering “OpenSource will save thee! Prepare for the saviour that is FOSS!”, are by sheer ignorance in effect doing the OpenSource concept and community a great disservice. In other words, the opposite of what you describe…”
‘Death to Apache’
‘I hate you all’
I won’t take every word seriously from a guy who isn’t being serious, but there is a certain theme.
“Since Sun is *NOT* a business that “operates with nothing more than”
That is exactly what they are doing, I was a hobbyist, I committed batches to Sun’s build process, I got a t-shirt. There are Sun projects out there with that intention.
dev.java.net/
mustang.dev.java.net
What is glassfish, or opensolaris? They want people who are hobbyist to commit.
Let us just pretend that I can’t read or understand english, or spanish, or some chinese(other languages). Does dev.java.net exist? Does Sun put up a wall so that hobbyist can’t commit to it? Did Hani not post “I hate you all”. What kind of reading do you do? It only happened once, no twice, no 100 times.
And, I don’t watch Paris Hilton, but you could identify who she was without having anybody describe her to you. So; somebody, somewhere watches her. And, it isn’t to hear her views on foreign policy.
“Considering your demonstrated inability to read and understand English”
You understood enough to respond to me. So, how do you define ‘understand’
August 7th, 2005 at 11:17 am
Hani, seems like you have a new crowd ;). Look at the size of the comments!
August 7th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
“What is glassfish, or opensolaris? They want people who are hobbyist to commit. ”
No they want people who are hobbyist to shut the fuck up and focus their attention on biling Microsoft.
“Let us just pretend that I can’t read or understand english, or spanish, or some chinese(other languages). Does dev.java.net exist? Does Sun put up a wall so that hobbyist can’t commit to it?”
wtf does that mean? You not being able to comprehand english has nothing todo with dev.java.net
And dev.java.net exists so that you and people like you can satisfy your craving to spew out more useless (re-invent the wheel, low quality) code to a complete misguided mass of people. Did you know that there are about 30 different web frameworks out there with only 3 or 4 that are actually used by someone othere than the developers.
“Considering your demonstrated inability to read and understand English”
“You understood enough to respond to me. So, how do you define ‘understand’ ”
what he meant by that is that you fail to ‘understand’ copmlete a sentence structured in a proper grammatical form. This means that you read the sentense take words and phrases out of it and combine them in your head in a totally different context.
Otherwise you are borderline retarded.
August 7th, 2005 at 1:46 pm
Hey! Whatsup with this Paul Graham guy ? The “King Midas” touch is mine and mine alone.
Would anyone want to see a Paul G “technical” interview on TSS ? I’d ask witty questions, I tell ya! I’m thinking of asking him if Lisp wouldn’t be better off without the parentheses. What do you guys think ? What would be the pros and cons ? Would it create pointless controversy and boost up the page views ? Or would I have to drag Bill Berk into it ?
August 7th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
I’m in the process of picking up a new stud, I mean boyfriend, and was wondering if that Paul Graham guy might be available. Anyone knows if he likes blondes ? His blog makes it sound like he does. Would my breasts drag him away from Common Lisp ?
August 7th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
“Otherwise you are borderline retarded”
Who says I wasn’t.
August 7th, 2005 at 11:44 pm
Logemann, you are such a bile whore.
August 8th, 2005 at 5:39 am
you’re funny.
As for Paul Graham though, if you don’t like him so much and disagree so vehemently with what he has to say, then why are you still reading his site?
wes
August 8th, 2005 at 6:20 am
> “Since Sun is *NOT* a business that “operates with nothing more than”
“That is exactly what they are doing”
This again is your “demonstrated inability to read and understand English”. Allow me to spell things out very very clearly.
Sun, as a business, do not operate with “nothing more than” hobbyists. The part that you are missing time and time again is the crucial, “nothing more than” part. Funnily enough, they have some paid full time employees working on commercially viable projects, without which the company would not survive. Funnily enough, the fact that they have set up a playground for hobbyists does not mean that those hobbyists are keeping the company afloat, and that Sun are only able to offer this service because it is supported by Sun’s other commercial work. Funnily enough, just because they encourage hobbyists to contribute to Sun’s own projects, does not mean that they don’t also commit their own paid employees to such development.
The only near-exception to this rule that I can think of is Hibernate, which for a long time was the preserve of dedicated hobbyists - but the fact that they have ultimately had to become paid employees of JBoss in order to keep the project going surely proves Hani’s point.
August 8th, 2005 at 6:34 am
Wow - talk about putting the cat in with the pigeons.
A particularly acidic bile entry Hani - keep it up :-)
James
August 8th, 2005 at 2:05 pm
In his keynote at the Tuesday night “extravaganza” at OSCON, Paul Graham made three points:
1. People work harder on things they like
2. The standard office is unproductive
3. Bottom-up works better than top-down
I hope this becomes an essay because there’s lots in it that’s worth spending more time thinking about. Some of it is in Hiring is Obsolete. Here’s some of the more provocative things Paul said (not verbatim, but hopefully I got the ideas right):
Someone who proposes to run Windows on servers ought to be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google and Yahoo don’t know.
What business ought to be getting out of open source isn’t the software, but the process.
Open source (and blogging) has a Darwinian approach to enforcing quality. The audience can communicate with each other and the bad stuff gets ignored.
Business must learn that people work a lot harder on things they like. That’s not news, but the structure of business doesn’t exemplify this.
People don’t switch to open source because they want to hack the code. People switch to Firefox because its better. Microsoft can’t pay people enough to build something better than the people who are building it out of love.
On the web, the barrier for publishing your ideas is even lower than spouting them in a bar: you don’t have to buy a drink and they let kids in.
We ought to call people who publish online “writers” not “bloggers.” Now, you can read any writer you want. Print media isn’t competing against the average quality of online writing. They’re competing against the best. The same as Microsoft.
The NYT front page is a list of people who write for the NYTs. Del.icio.us is a list of people who are interesting. You can see them side-by-side. You can see how little overlap there is.
Blogs and open source software are made by people working at home. The average office is a miserable place to get work done. What makes them done are the very qualities we equate with professionalism. The average office environment is to productivity what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed. Start-up environments are more like home work environments. This is probably the most productive the company is ever going to be.
The reasons companies have fixed hours is that they can’t measure productivity. The idea is that if you can’t make people work, you can at least prevent them from having fun. If they’re not having fun, they must be working! If you could measure what people really did, you wouldn’t care when people worked.
The bigger problem is that the people pretending to work interrupt the people who are actually working. With so much time on their hands, they have to take up the slack with meetings. Meetings count for work, just like programming, but they’re so much easier.
Open source and blogging show us what real work looks like.
Good ideas flow up from the bottom rather than flowing down from the top. This is the market model. For all their talk about free markets, companies are run like communist states. In the “channel” era, ideas flow top-down assign a reporter, edit the work, publish it.
Business can learn about open source in the same way that the gene pool learns about new conditions: the dumb ones will die.
August 8th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
Sweet Myself! Spot posting Graham-esque brainfarts-posturing-as-deep-thought over here, this is a tasteful place where intelligent people meet.
August 8th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
I’ve never heard of Paul Graham but in response to Joseph:
1. People work harder on things they like - They also work hard on things they are paid for. If payment comes as peer recognition, a sense of achievement or simple enjoyment its still payment. People work best when they are rewarded, you shouldn’t narrow it down to simply liking what they do. I bet Paul G can site various clinical studies where psychologists have shown that you do a job better if you like it. Lots of people read a couple of articles like this and map it to their area of interest and assume they have a new angle. What they fail to do is read around the subject and put it into context. If you want to see an example of a good way to use pychological findings in a novel way look at what Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates are doing.
2. The standard office is unproductive - How do you define productive? The standard office gives millions of people a great standard of living, thats pretty productive. If an office was really unproductive the company would go out of business, this happens but most companies that I assume Paul is referring to stay in business. Far more people have a job than don’t. I guess what he is really saying is that he knows how to make offices more productive. Great, lets hear it.
3. Bottom-up works better than top-down - And McDonalds shakes are better than Burger Kings. This statement misses the point and is usually made by someone making a name for themself or selling a new methodology. People in the real world know that on real projects both approaches are used. Usually people build software that does something that other people want it to do. In order to build the software correctly they must start from the users requirements, i.e. top down. End of argument. But once you have the requirements you need to start thinking about it in as many different ways as you can, bottom up, sideways, UML, SSADM, whatever works for the people involved. Limiting yourself by adhering to a doctrine like this will just make your job harder in the long run because you’ll ignore other ways of doing things and you won’t learn much. Oh, and good idea flow from anywhere.
But the key thing that should be recognised from the origanl blog entry is that there are two types of open source software. Hobbyist and engineered. Commercial OSS like Linux or MySQL benefits from the open source innovation and contribution but it depends on making money from support, training, etc. Both types of OSS are valid and required.
If people got past the addiction to different styles and really looked at what was best in any given situation we’d have a lot less failed projects. Is OSS better than commercial CSS? What a dumb question.
August 8th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
“People work harder on things they like.”
Right, but for the same pay they can either do not work on boring stuff or work their asses off on interesting stuff. To make them work really hard on boring stuff needs a lot more money.
“The standard office is unproductive.”
I would say, the home office is unproductive. You can work whenever you want, so why not to read blogs for another half-an-hour? There is a couch nearby, a TV, a fridge with chilled beer. I know people who work at home, they are very disciplined, and 2/3 of them are women, they don’t have that much craving for TV or beer.
August 8th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Paul needs to put his free time where his mouth is and release all his books for free. I think free books are better quality than books sold by whoring authors praying upon my lazy stupidity. I mean shit if blogs are better news than the NYT then why the fuck bother with O’Riely. Just pdf that shit up and post it to his blog. Oh bitter hypocricy of his arguements.
His points are not “new” nor are they news. It’s regurgitated excuses for piss poor productivity. As the old adage says a poor workman blames his tools and I’ll add, a professional gets the fucking job done despite his tools. After all that’s what professionals are paid for and bosses doesn’t give a rats ass about the status open source.
August 9th, 2005 at 2:36 am
I *do* understand why Graham got biled — he is indulging in the same fallacious reasoning that any “my magic process will make all your problems disappear” proponent uses to proselytize to the unwashed masses. Yes, it’s dishonest, and yes, it’s good to have someone call him on it.
The problem I have with this bile is that a straw man was constructed to contrast with Graham’s BS. No, the diametric opposite process doesn’t make the bad software stop — WRITING GOOD FUCKING CODE makes the bad software stop. End of sentence, end of story. You can be a clock-punching pro or a dork at home jacking it to the genius of your latest creation — if it’s good, it’s good. If it’s bad, you should SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Intellectual dishonesty, especially intellectual dishonesty from satirists like Hani, is bad because it obscures the real issues.
August 9th, 2005 at 11:12 am
Jroller realy should support editing a comment.
“Besides, when you a person is”
should be read as:
“Besides, when you are a person who is”
August 9th, 2005 at 11:14 am
“WRITING GOOD FUCKING CODE makes the bad software stop”
Obviously you dont work in the real world either. Not every development team is even remotely capable of writing good code.
Besides, when you are a person who is so obviously impressed with their own feces, what makes you think that they would even stop to debate quality?
After all, ‘Release early, Release often!’
Viva la Resistance!
August 10th, 2005 at 11:28 am
Has anyone considered tht Hani would never actually talk to someone this way? That if he did, someone would knock his dick in the dirt?
Maybe Hani is so brave about writing the way he does because he can hide behind the internet like a little boy hides behind his Mommy’s skirt.
August 10th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
I’m proud of you.
August 10th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Damn, that’s some long-ass comments. Couldn’t bother reading them all. But what kind of Nazi-Germany invoking name is “Berlin Brown”?
August 10th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
Hani this a half baked bile, go back and rewrite it again.
Full of weak points, poor selection of evidence, repetitive boring adjectives, if this were your opening statement as a prosecutor, I don’t buy your case.
Pal’ pito
August 11th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I wish we could do an organ transplant of ESR’s mustache on Paul Graham.
Anonymous bastard: good point about Berlin Braun.
August 11th, 2005 at 9:02 am
“WRITING GOOD FUCKING CODE makes the bad software stop.” I’ve seen plenty of good code that is bad, i.e. it doesn’t do what the user wanted/needed.
August 11th, 2005 at 9:54 am
Geez, dude, what’s with the fixation on male genitalia and homo-eroticism?
August 11th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
David, the true professional has many tools and is skilled in their use. Skilled in their use means not only do they know how to use them, but they also know when NOT to use them.
August 11th, 2005 at 7:20 pm
http://tech.rufy.com/entry/80 shows what great projects this moron likes to fund
August 12th, 2005 at 10:05 am
If you want to read some real Graham criticism which relies on content (rather than trying to draw attention using words as you have read above) and specific examples, you may take a look at:
http://www.fazlamesai.net/int/?a=article&sid=7
check for the Dabblers and Blowhards.
August 13th, 2005 at 11:58 am
Hey Fate - I think u r losin it dude.
August 15th, 2005 at 8:24 am
Who deleted my comment???
August 16th, 2005 at 6:00 am
Some son of a bitch deleted mine too. WTF?
August 16th, 2005 at 6:40 am
Hani, bring my post back. You prat!
3 + 0 = ?
August 17th, 2005 at 2:05 am
You blather:
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Lowering the barrier to entry does not improve quality, it lowers it. Some good stuff will obviously get in, but the vast majority will be far worse. Whether the former outweighs the latter is certainly not a forgone conclusion.
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What in the wide world of sports are you talking about? I don’t agree with all of what Graham says, but the above statement is just plain nonsense. You have proven, however, that lowering the barrier to entry lowers quality - witness your inane babble…
August 17th, 2005 at 2:38 am
I might be stupider than ESR. Most people are…
August 17th, 2005 at 4:23 am
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I don’t agree with all of what Graham says, but the above statement is just plain nonsense. You have proven, however, that lowering the barrier to entry lowers quality - witness your inane babble…
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It’s plain nonsense, yet it is true? That’s plain nonsense to me.
September 30th, 2005 at 7:26 pm
Actually I like FireFox over IE.
May 11th, 2006 at 4:34 am
Hani, I enjoy your bileful blog, but I enjoyed Paul Graham’s two superb books about Common Lisp far more.
Mr. G. has managed to write (these) two books that many regard as classics: ridiculing his intelligence is ridiculous.
April 11th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
100% agree. total arse pot. anyone that says microsoft is dead is a fucking moron.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:51 am
“Most blogs are a disturbing mix of zealotry, incompetence, ignorance, and randomly strung together smattering of incoherent prejudices.”