Comments on: The Problem With Good Advice http://www.symphonious.net/2008/05/27/the-problem-with-good-advice/ Living in a state of accord. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:39:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jeff Atwood http://www.symphonious.net/2008/05/27/the-problem-with-good-advice/#comment-159994 Jeff Atwood Tue, 27 May 2008 23:24:35 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/?p=856#comment-159994 > I think this process is why I read so few blogs from people who make their living from writing/publishing. The interest I have in blogs is to hear from people on the front lines doing the interesting stuff, not the ones that are just writing about it. I often write about stackoverflow.com, which we are building out. That's one of the odd things about Alistair's criticism; he disagreed with my "conclusion" on HTML Markup vs. Markdown.. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001116.html .. while not realizing that the reason I posted that was to gather feedback. We ended up deciding on Markdown, ironically using the same exact control that he's using on his blog: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php/2008/05/potential-markup-and-editing-choices/ I believe Alastair's problem with my recent posts were that he vehemently disagreed with many of them, perhaps as a result of the "smackdown" learning model. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000630.html > I think this process is why I read so few blogs from people who make their living from writing/publishing. The interest I have in blogs is to hear from people on the front lines doing the interesting stuff, not the ones that are just writing about it.

I often write about stackoverflow.com, which we are building out. That’s one of the odd things about Alistair’s criticism; he disagreed with my “conclusion” on HTML Markup vs. Markdown..

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001116.html

.. while not realizing that the reason I posted that was to gather feedback. We ended up deciding on Markdown, ironically using the same exact control that he’s using on his blog:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php/2008/05/potential-markup-and-editing-choices/

I believe Alastair’s problem with my recent posts were that he vehemently disagreed with many of them, perhaps as a result of the “smackdown” learning model.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000630.html

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