JWZ on iPhone OS development: "This is why I sell beer"
JWZ makes no sense what so ever. I'm sure he's really good at <i>some</i> kind of programming, or at least that he once was, but he often talks from what he thinks is a position of insight, while actually he's quite ignorant.<p>The first commenter's explanation of why OpenGL and OpenGLES differ is a fantastic example. JWZ simply <i>never</i> bothered to learn enough about the subject in the first place, but comfortably speaks about the "defining characteristics" of it.<p>Reminds me of a similar hubbub when he proclaimed that CSS is bullshit and decided to stick with table-based markup, this because CSS (in April of 2003), required a span inside of a h1 to replace his table-soup (to mark up just a <i>headline</i>), when he'd prefer just a h1. <a href="http://jwz.livejournal.com/193866.html" rel="nofollow">http://jwz.livejournal.com/193866.html</a><p>Being talented in programming is simply <i>not</i> a binary situation, which JWZ shows quite well: he might be really good at <i>some things</i>, I really don't know, but he is also really ignorant in some of the other things he rants about with confidence.