[OGC]

"A year ago, I nearly vanished from the public web because I had an intuitive feeling the centralized web was a backdoor to the government."

Yeah, I bet that's why he did that.

Another attention-whore riding the NSA-scandal wave.

Edit: Okay, this guy is a troll. Or insane. He uses the verb "deploying" like it's a.. i don't know, lifestyle or something. His node code is a really, really basic website with some routes, views and markdown code. And he wants 37$ for his ebook which will teach you how to do that on your own! Whoa.

Don't feed the trolls.

[vertr]

I just found this post, it's a pretty good review of the madness: http://evbogue.com/haters

"Learning to deploy Node.js is probably one of the hardest things I've done with my life to date. It's a different kind of challenge than traveling around the globe, or throwing out all of your shit."

[cheald]

In fairness, it is fairly difficult to read the documentation with your head crammed up your rectum.

[coldtea]

Well, if you're not a programmer, it makes sense.

[vertr]

Yeah but this is a guy who is selling a guide on deploying Node.

[ancarda]

Depends. It could easily be a crude guide saying little more than "apt-get install node". Isn't that "deploying"?

[OGC]

Another gem from his twitter:

"@_jpope How likely is it that I will brick my Macbook Pro while trying to install Arch Linux?"

...

[lmm]

I bricked a mac the last time I tried to install linux on it. (one of the last pre-imac ones. one too few zeroes when changing the firmware adress thingy. Kind of a shame as it had a very nice A/V PERCH card). So it's not an entirely unreasonable question.