Well, at least he's doing his best to prove the myth of all programmers being humorless autists who take everything literally to be true... Yes, sure, we're talking about exactly 10x when we talk about 10x programmers. Etcetera, etcetera. Even the most fanatical Agile evangelist gets both the tongue in cheek humor (with a serious undertone) of Zed's "programming, motherfucker", but not this guy.
To be fair, sometimes it is hard to tell when those in the Ruby/JavaScript/Web 2.0/NoSQL/"opinionated" crowd are being serious and when they're joking. Some of the claims or statements they make in a serious manner are so far off-base that they appear to be jokes to those with more experience or higher standards. The "JavaScript is like Scheme" claim is a good example of this. A lot of JavaScripters will openly expre…
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...