[retcon]

Reading this man's homepage he comes across as a insufferable egotist. I couldn't find any trace of didactic value among the self aggrandizing rhetoric not possible to convey with infinitely greater humility and persuasion as well as concision.

Edit: reference source decades of being quite intolerable myself. Takes one to know one. And by my experience incredible good fortune and more decades to repent.

[vlmutolo]

The page is supposed to read as a joke. That's his schtick. I think his writing is pretty funny.

[teekert]

Haha, I love this humor, it's the kind I write in a frenzy of enthusiasm and inspiration often fueled by a sudden realization of the crazy state some things are in.

I also have gotten a lot slack for it. But I see it as a way to convey that new feeling of wonder and awe a child has upon entering a new world. Challenge the assumptions, make up some nice words, pretend very hard that your academic title is an actual thing that gives you some blessed superpowers (as is the way that people often treat it!). I love it. It's truth wrapped in humor to soften the blow to the ones that think themselves overly important. The "shocked ones" are the ones that I try to avoid in life anyway, nice discussions begin at the edge of your comfort zone.

[x0n]

Dude. How can you read "I’ve been a legendary hacker for 98% of my life, but there was a brief period when I did not possess the sum totality of human knowledge." and not realize this is self-parody?

[sodapopcan]

I think even with the edit that this comment is also satire.

[RagnarD]

The page is extremely obviously full of satire.

[doctor_eval]

Is that you, Mickens?

[whimsicalism]

Having interacted with Mickens quite a bit, he is far from intolerable.

[Veen]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony