Katz give me faith in humanity (Score 1)

I despise Katz and his poorly-considered rants. What gives me hope is the sheer number of people who flame him. So long as every Katz post is met with the criticism it so richly deserves, that means good taste is alive somewhere in the world, and I can sleep easily. And wtf did he mean by asserting that kernel programming is a mere mechanical skill, implying that it has no more creativity involved than fixing a faucet? I think it is an open question at this point if the man has ever written a line of code in his whole life, which would be sort of rich considering how he's trying to claim to understand "geeks" so perfectly. There's art in coding, Jon - go read "The Mythical Man-Month" and flip to the part where programming is described as "building castles in air." That is the best description of the intrinsic beauty of programming that I've ever seen. -Patrick Hearon