[bluefish]

Some people really need to be on the offensive to get things done. They need to feel like someone else is the enemy and they are going to defeat them. It seems to me like Zed puts himself in the position of David vs the open-source-community-Goliath on purpose so that he can be on the offensive. He gives himself an enemy, throws down the gauntlet and declares that he can and is going to make things better. I'm not one to argue that he picks the best motivational targets, calling people out and demeaning a hard-working community seems pretty negative, but damn when Zed says he is going to deliver, Zed delivers. Laser focused, intelligent and hard-working. I would love to work with Zed, hire him or have him contribute to one of my projects, but damn, I'd be terrified of pissing him off.

[nailer]

Zed's the enemy of crap. Whether it's inconsistency in languages, poorly created enterprise software development practices (The ACL is dead), or egotism and leeching from others work without acknowledgement (Rails is a Ghetto).

If I pissed him off, I'd listen to why he's pissed off, because he's good at identifying crap.

[rbanffy]

"Zed's the enemy of crap. Whether it's inconsistency in languages, poorly created enterprise software development practices (The ACL is dead), or egotism <b>coming from others (Zed's so fucking awesome)</b> and leeching from others work without acknowledgement (Rails is a Ghetto)."

There. Fixed that for you.

Zed is has a really, amazingly, big hat. Too bad there is next to no cowboy under it.

[rbanffy]

It also seems he has a couple logins here.

[nuclear_eclipse]

I may share your position on Zed, but people here generally dislike comments that don't add to the discussion, or are blatant attacks on someone; your post fits both perhaps?

[rbanffy]

Interesting when a factually correct observation can be construed as an attack.

[mistermann]

How do you know this? Are you implying that some of the Zed positive posts here were actually made by him?