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Arrington hates Rails but wants Rails Hackers?

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You should work at TechCrunch. You've mastered the sensationalist linkbait headline!

When did Arrington say he hated Rails?

And if he did, how can he have an opinion on Rails when AFAIK he's never written a line of code in his life?

He called out the twitter (Rails) guy by name. I've been involved in the industry since dotcom times and that was the first time I've seen a single engineer been singled out for media ridicule. The scenario was like a junkie lashing out at his dealer for denying him his fix.

Did we just get a speech on junkies and dealers from a menlo park bum?

like I said, I've been around.

Just because he called out a single guy who was unable to make something scale doesn't mean he was dismissing the entire technology (as, clearly, he hasn't).

I agree, I just like posting comments to this site.

"a single guy who was unable to make something scale"

Allegedly. Nobody outside of Twitter knows the whole story.

Great title Sumon!

To anyone looking for a summer gig: come and work with Mark and me. We're two Rails dudes and we're having a grand ole time at TC.

Actually, I know Arrington was interested in Rails as early as July 2006. We had a serious conversation about using it for the first version of the job board. I argued for PHP and we settled on it -- at the time, Rails deployment was a PITA and he didn't have any other Rails apps, so why take on that hassle for a simple app?

Yeesh, I keep mentioning I build that job board here. It only took ten days from introduction to done, he just keeps coming up here.

Arrington never said he hated rails. I imagine he hates linkbait involving him though.

it's karma

and imagine he paid for that!

come to think of it, he probably suggested this headline. This is a double winner for TC and Snaptalent -- exposure for both of them! TC to the hacker crowd, and more traffic for snap talent.

Arrington hates everything he doesn't own and at least half of what he does.

I think the negative TC articles get blown way out of proportion--I'm generally surprised by how positive and free of tough judgment the coverage on TC is. People often point out how positive they are to YC companies, but if you do the math, they're positive to almost all small companies. Bigger companies catch plenty of flack--but that's OK, they can take it.

If you add'em all up, though, TC is a pretty resoundingly positive site--it's snarky (in a TMZ kinda way), but it's generally good-natured ribbing of the sort that takes place all the time at events in the valley. Just tonight, a bunch of folks were hanging out at Bistro 412 in Palo Alto making fun of the Web 2.0 "business model", venture capitalists, and anything else that came up. Doesn't mean everybody who was there doesn't like the industry or the people in it.

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