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A comment in Hani's blog about Paul Graham sums it up for me;

The whole foundational discourse bullshit about "hackers" is what's really offensive in Graham's missive. Stinking fucking prima donnas who don't want to get their hands dirty and who can't cut code that someone else can maintain if their life depended on it. Spaghetti code producing fuckwits who couldn't produce a half decent build system, configuration management system or write a unit test. Children drawing stickman drawings with crayons on the walls of their parents houses who think they're goddamn Rembrandt! How could this be possibly be regarded as "elite"?!

Posted by Hack R. Asshat (141.168.30.93) at 30.07.2004 20:14:33 #

The best considered blogged response I've seen so far is this entry on .:Manageability:.