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[cokeandpepsi]

I don't hate everything he does and I'd imagine he's probably an interesting guy to chat with

there is a subset of 'clean code' fanatics who treat his work as religious text and tend to produce some of the most bloated unmanagable code bases I've run into

I wouldn't even say his work is valueless but it's a horrible starting point and shouldn't be a destiation

[teddyh → cokeandpepsi]

Again, criticism without any specifics.

And people misinterpreting and doing bad things (which he would agree is bad), is that his fault?