Timothy's other hobbies include feeding mice to snakes, setting up barrels loaded with fish then handing out guns, and throwing blood in the water at shark-infested beaches. Wow. I really do kinda feel bad for the guy who wrote this original post. Kinda, but not really.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
-Edward Abbey
...is 25 years old. One of the sentences in TFA begins "When I was in my dorm room at Harvard."
So, a rich, successful, right-place-at-place-at-the-right-time twentysomething makes a self-serving comment born out of the hubris and inexperience of youth. This is like Paris Hilton saying "It doesn't matter what you do, as long as its *hot*" and it is only newsworthy because Paris Hilton isn't in a position to take a great deal of the intellectual capital I've invested in Facebook and simply passing it to whomever suits her fancy. Perhaps some of Zuckerberg's older business partners could recommend that he shut up.
In previous editions of Disagree Mail, several people commented on the fact that the offerings were too short and too few. I didn't comment, but I shared the sentiment.
Serves us right.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.