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by thomseddon 4363 days ago
You obviously don't know TJ...

https://github.com/visionmedia http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-...

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What am I supposed to take away from these links, other than the technical culture's self-defeating tendency to lionize individuals to fit a hero narrative?
If you read the second link, it's presented that that guy is actually a group of people working under a phony name, to give the cult a "hero". Drum up hype, etc.

It's been done before too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

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Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for rigour and generality. Their work led to the discovery of several concepts and terminologies still discussed.