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I think Coding Horror has already given whatever value it could. It's time to move along, perhaps.



Yeah, it seems these days that Jeff Atwood is a has-been who keeps rehashing the same old points that he made on his blog 5 years ago. I'm not sure why we give his blog posts such prominent attention on HN…


"Prominent attention" is just people voting with their mouse. If nobody upvoted, the posts would go away. So clearly some HN readers are getting something out of his posts.


clearly some HN readers are getting something out of his posts.

That's exactly my point—I don't understand what so many HN readers get out of the banal tripe that Jeff seems to be spewing in almost every post these days.


He's famous, and programmers love their celebrities.


I was just thinking he is still coming up with interesting ideas, even if it is just commentary on an article by someone else.

The original article: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2008/tc200...




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