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I suggest you look at closely at DHH for an example of what you're really talking about.

• cxr 2y ago
  I'm genuinely baffled about how to even respond to this. That's your reply? That there's an even worse person who isn't in the slot?
  • codinghorror 2y ago
    "The whole reason he's a public figure is from his blog posts that include a bunch of deliberately placed attitude and bombast of the sort that turns a lot of people away but is selected for anyway because it gets just as many (or more) followers, and attention is only additive." This is not a defensible statement *based on my writing*. Give it a shot, if you think you can pull it off. I'd like to see some real citations here rather than broad, unsupported generalizations. Now try *that same statement against DHH's writing* -- what you said is exactly correct.
    • cxr 2y ago
      > This is not a defensible statement based on my writing. The writing is all there is; the entire basis for the remarks is the obnoxiously cocky posts confidently published to the Coding Horror blog. (Or, I dunno, maybe things changed and that's no longer the case; I started ignoring everything published there 10+ years ago.) > Now try that same statement against DHH's writing Try as you might, you're not going to convince me to give enough of a shit about going off and familiarizing myself with whatever you're referring to all for the sole purpose of being able to figure out who is the biggest blowhard.