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JWZ may know his stuff, but damn he can be a salty asshole...


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Actually I meant jwz himself. He's always so self righteous and pompous, which in my book is never something to strive for.

JWZ is a lot of things, but he's never claimed to be a nice person.

This is one of the very few times I wish jwz were more unpleasant than he normally is.

He should not call something "salty-ass junk" if he wants his "work" to be respected.

this was upvoted so quickly because it is jwz, a man famous for his anger and rants - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz

This was not a good one, in my opinion.


Crazy how arrogant people can be, this disrespect he shows really echoes the classic "fuck you, got mine" mentality.

Not saying anyone is immune to that, but just calling it out when its there.


Wow...that guy is a jerk.

This guy is an asshole.

"I'm totally an asshole"

At around 34:30 he admits he's an asshole in the context of slamming other people's work.

For him to jump all over the person above who called him a cock, well, all I can say is "pot-kettle-black, motherfucker".

"I'm busy helping people, you're busy calling me a cock".

Cry me a river. In the video he gets real busy rubbishing other people's work. Not to say he didn't have some very good, honest, refreshing points. But one needs to be able to take it if one dishes it out.


He is kind of an asshole.

I don't personally know Zed outside of his internet persona -- and to me it seems like he's just a guy who doesn't put up with bullshit. I have never seen a time where he's an asshole to anyone who isn't shooting first. He puts his opinions out there and sometimes those cause flame wars so if you catch him in the middle of one those on Twitter then I can definitely see where people might think he's a jerk.

His tweets are comedy gold though -- highly recommend everyone follow him -- @zedshaw

edit: case and point -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806748


What an ignorant jerk.

He's also a massive narcissist and asshole. It is exhausting to hear that he's still drumming up anger over that one time he was right on a GitHub issue.

That's funny. When I saw him being salty and obnoxious I checked the author on the piece, but since it was a Substack and didn't say "Jeff Vogel" I decided it was just a coincidence and I should keep reading since it was a new perspective. Guess not.

He's offensive as hell in his vids on youtube too, so I think he's just a jerk

He's such a jerk.

wow, he really is a jerk on twitter.

TL;DR - He's not unknown but he's definitely an asshole.

This guy makes my blood boil.
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