[veritas]

What are you talking about? DHH and 37signals provide a lot to the conversation, including differing points of view.

If having a different opinion means "contributing nothing positive" then we've fallen a long, long way.

Edit: fixed grammar.

[sabat]

I'm talking about his attitude. He contributes nothing because he turns minor points ("hey, you don't have to do a startup; you could just start your own small business" -- OK, and today is Friday) into huge shitstorms by using inflamatory language.

David likes to be a contrarian. That's not altogether bad, but a contrarian who prides himself on his arrogance(1) -- that's poison.

(1) http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals

"Arrogant is usually something you hurl at somebody as an insult," Hansson said. "But when I actually looked it up — having an aggravated sense of one's own importance or abilities' — I thought, sure."

Other data points:

- http://www.flickr.com/photos/eugevon/130610241/

- http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/why_is_37signals_so_1.html

- http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-translation

[ntoshev]

He may be arrogant, I don't mind. His points are not minor; the choice whether to grow organically or try to make it big on steroids (funding) is a very important one.

I saw almost all of your comments recently have been dedicated to dhh. Most have been heavily downmodded. It's obvious the community here likes what dhh says, why not just ignore him if you don't like him? Hey, I do that with pbs.org, valleywag and Matt Maroon without the need for any software! The point of such software is in arguing what to put in the defaults.