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>How the hell did he contort himself into inferring that from what Gruber wrote?!

It is called dishonesty. It is the entire reason anyone knows who DHH is.

It is called dishonesty. It is the entire reason anyone knows who DHH is.

I understand you may not like the guy, but I'm pretty sure DHH's fame came mostly from creating Ruby on Rails.

I don't think it did. What's the name of the guy who created django? I know the only reason I know of DHH and not django-guy is that DHH spent years dishonestly promoting rails/trashing java.

I don't think it did. What's the name of the guy who created django?

Adrian Holovaty et al.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rhetorical+question

Yeah, I got what you were trying to do. The rhetorical question you chose didn't support your point.

Yes it does. Compare how many people know django guy vs how many people know DHH. One specific individual knowing who django guy is doesn't invalidate the argument.

Well, that or being very "vocal" about Rails. :)

It's not unlikely that there are younger people in tech who know him from 37signals and not RoR.

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