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> There's not even an XP conference anymore. I wonder why?
Cuz we XPers are too busy Programming, Motherfucker!
The fact that I agree with all of this just makes me sadder at how it was presented. Thanks for building a handy straw man for the methodology developers to attack. I flagged this --- it's virtually content free --- but that's a futile gesture given how susceptible HN is to this particular form of social engineering.
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If it wasn't plain as day that Zed was serious about this, (a) I wouldn't be voted as high as it was, and (b) I wouldn't have commented on it. I just wish he hadn't built a caricature.
Yeah, I'm totally serious about it with that picture of Samuel L. Jackson right at the top. Totally dead serious. Going to start the conference tomorrow.
The fact that I agree with all of this just makes me sadder at how it was presented. Thanks for building a handy straw man for the methodology developers to attack. I flagged this --- it's virtually content free --- but that's a futile gesture given how susceptible HN is to this particular form of social engineering.
Yeah, humor's so damn manipulative.
Finally, a HN post I can get behind.
I always presumed HN was SFW ...
Is this really #1? Like, is it really the most important thing I can read today? Having read it: no, no it's not. I agree with the ideology: it would be better if programmers instead of managers made decisions, but I don't think this piece expresses that very well. It also seems that the only reason this submission is at the top is that it uses "shocking" profanity associated with incest. I'm unimpressed.
Incest? Man you got issues. There's a lot more mothers than your own.
"The path of the righteous programmer is beset on all sides by the inequities of the clueless and the tyranny of evil project managers. Blessed is he, who in the name of achievement and solid technology, shepherds the users through the valley of ineptitude, for he is truly his customer's keeper and the finder of lost solutions. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would at…
