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 some 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.The first commenter's explanation of why OpenGL and OpenGLES differ is a fantastic example. JWZ simply never bothered to learn enough about the subject in the first place, but comfortably speaks about the "defining characteristics" of it.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 headline), when he'd prefer just a h1. http://jwz.livejournal.com/193866.htmlBeing talented in programming is simply not a binary situation, which JWZ shows quite well: he might be really good at some things, I really don't know, but he is also really ignorant in some of the other things he rants about with confidence.