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Yeah, completes documentation on a product he announced an intention to develop 5 seconds ago (internet time).

Gotta respect the guy's work ethic and coding chops!

People can say whatever they want about Zed, but they can't say he doesn't get things done.

Zed doesn't get things done. See, people can too say it. ;)

Tons of people are getting things done everyday around the world. Zed happens to be part of the subset who are promoting themselves agressively on the web. Not that I think that self-promotion is bad. But it's important to recognize the distinction between promotion and productivity.

I have been thoroughly impressed with how productive Zed can be.

whether or not he is good at promoting himself - and he seems to negatively affect enough people that the point is arguable - he is good at getting things done, people who fail to acknowledge that reveal more about themselves than they do about Zed.

Ehem, wrote the manual and the features the manual describes (with some help). People always forget the code.

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