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Jeff Atwood is a muppet

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All this drama reminds me of this excellent phrase:

https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352

  Let's argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better
  while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape.

I clicked through in the slim hope that this post would be a revelation about Atwood's actual identity (which one? what color?) but, no, it's just pitiful and insulting nerd chest thumping.

I hope (a) I've saved others an otherwise irresistible click and (b) that's it's obvious that I flagged.

Fraggles.

The conversation over WHICH muppet various tech-celebs might be would be more entertaining than weather they actually are muppets. This is a conversation that needs to be had.

Come on, the muppet thing is just a bit of reverse linkbait, and should be taken lightheartedly. As for insulting - if anyone has cause for insult, its the hundreds of developers who have spent their time putting together something that Atwood rubbishes on what feels like a weekly basis.

I try to make sure anything I talk about is well researched, because an baseless opinion is worthless [...]

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Jeff doesn’t seem to know much about PHP. I’d guess he’s read some posts about it [...]

Maybe some actual research would have removed the guesswork from that assertion.

If you're going to write an article going after Jeff Atwood for criticizing PHP, you probably shouldn't host it on a poorly-written PHP website that can't establish a database connection. You're not helping your case.

Heh, yeah, not the best. But my lack of investment in a decent server would be a problem regardless of my choice of blog software ;)

tl;dr: author is displeased with Jeffs latest PHP rant and decides that its time for an ad-hominem attack. Rare in actual substance.

Author's primary argument is that Atwood is ignorant of PHP, but provides no evidence author isn't ignorant of everything but PHP.

I guess if you've lived in a box your whole life, a slightly bigger box must seem pretty good. Don't knock my box, you should have seen how small the last one was.

This idiot just proves most of this: http://two-pi-r.livejournal.com/622760.html

  If you just want to stick up for your "favorite" PHP
  framework simply because it's the only f**king thing
  that you know, then go f**k yourself with a hand grenade.
  There are very good reasons I am advising you not to write
  new things in this f**king completely broken piece of shit,
  and security is only one of them.

Amen.

A man criticizes a technology. You spend your time not only criticizing a man, but self-promoting in search of thumbs-ups. Way to go, Craig... You're a muppet.

Most developers still think language and framework is important. Mostly it isn't. Jeff just has a higher soapbox. Use Java, PHP, .NET, RoR, Python, it doesn't really matter.

Website is down

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Text cache.

"The most glaring statement in the entire article is this one:"

WHICH ONE? WHICH ONE?

Well, somebody is starving for attention.

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