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One of the coolest things about the internet is how people rush to be the first to declare that something has jumped the shark.

Wait, that's not cool at all. That's just lame.

Anyhow, alas, it was all for nought anyhow as kevinwilliampang.com has been beaten to the punch, repeatedly, as a quick Google search will show. '"jeff atwood" "jump the shark"' comes back with 267 results, not all accusing Jeff of jumping the shark, but enough to make my point.

Thinking hating on things is cool is for lamers. (Or some phrasing like that.)

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Is it just me, or have jerf's HN posts kind of jumped the shark? Remember, you heard it here first!

Seriously though, how many friggin times do we have to rehash these same darn podcast comments (and their fall out).

This folks, is what is called a Judgement Call. How much time you spend on testing, what kind testing you do, etc... is all really subject the programmer's need. If Jeff Atwood can write bug free code without OOD than so be it. If you CAN'T and you try to use his example you are going to find out real quickly that it was a bad idea.

So there's no need for a bunch of blog debate. As long as people are familiar with SOLID principles they can make up their own minds.

Point taken. I was mainly using it as a play on Jeff's original post about him "jumping the shark" but I guess it's easy to miss that if you're not altogether familiar with his body of work.

Either way, my point wasn't that Jeff Atwood is a moron and whatever he says should be disregarded. Sorry if it came across as that. The point I was trying to make was that his disregard for code quality and the SOLID principles in specific is dangerous and that the massive amount of readership he gets and the support they have for his beliefs makes that doubly so.

I agree with you, but Jeff Atwood is a really harmful influence. He just doesn't know anything, but continues to make stuff up and pass it off as fact.

He can write his blog the next time he writes some code to go with it. Or does some research. Right now, the only reason he is popular is because he says what people want to hear. That's pandering -- not intellect.

Anyway, I guess I don't care. I realized a long time ago that most people are stupid, and stupid likes to travel in hordes. There is plenty of real education out there for people who seek it.

Is it the form or the substance of jrockway's comment that gets it downmoded? (pure curiosity)

Incidentally, after you posted that, it got modded up.

Upon further reflection, it wasn't really that great of a comment.

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