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Looks like today is International Fuck Marco Arment day.

(no disrespect meant to Marco)

To be fair, he's mostly instigating it himself with incendiary posts and tweets. I can't keep up with how many people he's told to f--- off in the past 48 hours.

Marco has a history of doing this. He's a developer, and an opinionated one at that (which is saying something for us guys.)

His actions here stink of foul play rather than any genuine worry. Maybe he has another side to this – but if he does, telling people to fuck off isn't the way around it.

> He's a developer, and an opinionated one at that

Too often this is a euphemism for "he's a jerk who's unwilling to consider anyone else's perspective or requirements".

You can kinda get away with that in software development if you're incredibly smart, but it's an awful attitude to bring to any other part of your life.

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