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by _zen 4428 days ago
Why are you getting your jimmies rustled for no reason? Stop getting offended over nothing. They didn't say "PHP developers are makers at heart. No one else is."
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I'm not getting offended; actually I'm mainly a PHP dev.

The sentence just sounds as if you paid $5 someone to write you an intro to a technical matter because you didn't know what to to use.

The sentence is general and without point. Because it is coming from a technical company and is aimed towards technical people, yes, I find it ridiculous.

Passionate language like that is used all over the industry, especially from start ups. So why is it a big deal if it's used to describe PHP?

If the Ruby on Rails blog made a post saying "Rubyists are makers at heart." would you complain?

Ha! Actually that would go on my nerves even more. I don't like that type of sugarcoating in general. There is a big difference between passionate language and fake passionate language. IMHO this is the latter case.

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Heroku != blog of a random startup

Lead sentence != middle of post

I won't continue as this leads nowhere.