I would absolutely have pegged this as satire, but it looks like a Eugene Ross did indeed place second in a web design competition in Sarasota.
http://www.sarasotacountyschools.net/schools/sarasotahigh/in...
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#22So, maybe I have too much faith in people here, but I think this post is satire. While it's an extreme example, the attitude the author espouses- that there is one right way to do things and anyone doing otherwise is an idiot -is definitely not unheard. Hell, I've been plenty guilty of it myself, looking down my nose at someone using Eclipse as I struggle to remember 8 button long Emacs shortcuts.
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#23Why is he so super elitist about "hand coding" a website? I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life. Being elitist always sucks no matter how awesome you are... but come on we are talking about a webdesign competition, not some x86_64 assembly hacking event. This is ridiculous.
>"I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life."
I expect you're correct. [0]
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#24"Now, I didn’t necessarily see the winning groups site, but you don’t have to – it was made in Dreamweaver!" I want to believe that the arrogant tone in combination with this line are some sort of punch line or social experiment that I'm just not getting. Please?
It's some teenager that will regret this article later in life. Let's not give him even more attention. It's just getting more painful for him this way.
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#25"Now, I didn’t necessarily see the winning groups site, but you don’t have to – it was made in Dreamweaver!" I want to believe that the arrogant tone in combination with this line are some sort of punch line or social experiment that I'm just not getting. Please?
Since the guy didn't even include any snapshots of his design, he can't be too proud of it.
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#26Wow. I think you need to settle down a bit and allow your ego to deflate.
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#28I had asked booth groups and they each answered, “Dreamweaver.” “Oh. Nice.”, I thought, trying to hold back any laughter that I may have had.
I'm sort of glad he didn't win (I know - aren't I a terrible person?), if that was his high-handed attitude and dismissal of a tool that lets designers make sites... by hand.
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#29So, maybe I have too much faith in people here, but I think this post is satire. While it's an extreme example, the attitude the author espouses- that there is one right way to do things and anyone doing otherwise is an idiot -is definitely not unheard. Hell, I've been plenty guilty of it myself, looking down my nose at someone using Eclipse as I struggle to remember 8 button long Emacs shortcuts.
Nope, it's real: https://twitter.com/eugeneross/status/433047716374253568
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#30I'm a fool and this should be taken as self expression. Don't take this as me hating on anyone. I'm an idiot for posting this.