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Yeah I can't help but wonder if he doesn't know the online culture very well. I know a lot of people who don't do anything on stackoverflow barely know what Twitter is, don't read a single blog much less write one. I don't get it but they seem to be able to get a job without doing much of anything. They're also rarely useful but that's another issue.

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I don't get it but they seem to be able to get a job without doing much of anything. They're also rarely useful but that's another issue.

It's incredibly strange that you view not twittering, spending time on stackoverflow, or blogging as not doing anything.

By that standard, absolutely all of the best people I've worked with in the past decade are useless, and some of the worst people I've worked with pass your test with flying colors.

I'm not generalizing to the idea that bloggers and stackoverflow users are all useless. I'm taking the far more sane position that blogging, twittering and stockoverflowing are uncorrelated to work ethic and talent.

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