"Stressing scalability so much put somewhat in shadow what in the 80's was one of the most interesting meters of software coolness [...]"
"Unfortunately I also think that our dude is part of the problem, since running crappy benchmarks is not going to help our pop culture."
"Apple to Apple, with the same mouth"
Well also the fact that I try to write this blog posts in very little time (it took me two hours at max, probably even a mother tongue should alloc more time to end with an high quality blog post) does not help either.
That said, please don't make excuses about how little time you spent on it. It might be true, but it shows lack of respect for your audience. Like code, if it's worth writing at all, it's probably worth writing well.
Keep writing, keep coding!
I should try to resist some more hours in order to obtain a post that is more consistent and easy to follow... instead I tend to push the "publish" button and even when the post is already live I continue fixing it... Thanks for the comment!
antirez's readership probably overlaps significantly with his userbase.
For purely selfish reasons, I wholeheartedly commend and encourage his goal of spending less time writing blog posts. :)
This parses correctly, just with difficulty. It's not exactly a garden path sentence, but it has several small key words which, if missed, lead to a failed parse.
Anyway, my point is not to send the guy to study English instead of doing whatever it is he prefers doing. But if you write in public, just get some help proofreading. Despite what the other defensive people on this thread are saying, good, clear communication matters and helps.
A "meter" is, among other things, "a measure, gauge, or criterion"; and in this way it can take the place of "metric". Idiomatic it certainly is not; but it is correct.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meter
which while not exhaustive is quite indicative of standard usage.
"Stressing scalability so much put somewhat in shadow what in the 80's was one of the most interesting meters of software coolness [...]"
This parses perfectly fine with this meaning:
"The stress people put on scalability now has shadowed one of the most interesting measurements of software coolness in the 80's."
I'm not saying that the sentence can't be improved, but that you're wrong when you say that it's nonsensical.
So, a few turns of phrase, or whatever, who cares? I understood it, and I was able to understand it because HE is not as LAZY as I AM! (and went out and learned english.)