[nostrademons]

His say basically is that we should all stop talking about programming and actually program things, because we'll all learn a lot more about what actually works in practice rather than what we think might work.

This is incredibly good advice which I can't seem to follow myself. I'm on HN during the workday instead of getting my damn CSS layouts to resize correctly, after all.

[tptacek]

You ever look at jwz's markup or CSS? He's solved that problem by bypassing it entirely. Go work on something fun.

[nostrademons]

His pages also tend to be butt-ugly. ;-) I get paid to make things pretty, or rather to take the pretty designs that interaction/visual designers come up with and make them actually work, across all browsers, maintainably, with a minimum number of bytes.

In return, when I'm not wrestling with CSS I can play with massive quantities of data and a few zillion machines. Not a bad trade-off IMHO.

[amix]

In return when JWZ is finished hacking he hangs in his own nightclub. Not a bad trade-of IMHO ;)

[samlittlewood]

cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/