Not to mention that these affiliates and networks are responsible for a wide variety of credit card rebill scams and other shady stuff. Frankly I'm surprised the FTC hasn't come down on the entire industry.
So you are criticizing me for commenting on the mental health of someone, but then you question my own mental heath? That's hypocritical of you. If that is how this works then we should also question your mental health.
I think he's dangerous and posturing these posts to build a new following to replace the last one that he destroyed. I would quite like to keep the HN community out of it.
Fortunately having a weak point in an argument doesn't nullify the whole thing.
I have a hobby of keeping an eye on and occasionally critiquing 'cult of personality' types who build cults and scam their members. I am passionate about it, however I've never had contact with Mr. Bogue.
I believe the guy is dangerous. Take it as you will.
My point was that my writing style was not out of line. Being snarky and critical is perfectly okay. You are free to disagree and reminisce about the old days though.
"Learning to deploy Node.js is probably one of the hardest things I've done with my life to date. It's a different kind of challenge than traveling around the globe, or throwing out all of your shit."
Of course I'm not in a position to diagnose anyone with anything specifically, however I think erratic self-destructive behavior is in that realm.
"A mental disorder or psychiatric disorder is a psychological pattern or anomaly, potentially reflected in behavior, that is generally associated with distress or disability, and which is not considered part of normal development in a person's culture. "
Ev Bogue is a mentally unstable guy who comes out of the woodwork every so often to say crazy 'edgy' things. He generally builds little cults and then destroys them in fits of mania. His last title for himself was "Cybernetic Yogi."
After he destroyed his minimalist and post-human blogs and communities he's recently got into coding Node. Presumably because he lost all credibility in the other fields. His thing is to "quit" services. He quit Twitter, quit writing, quit Facebook, rejoined Twitter, deleted his blog, undeleted his blog, quit his identity, created a new one, and so on. This would all be very amusing if he didn't take it so seriously himself. He is at best, very mentally ill.
I find his current work particularly annoying because he's a guy who has about six months of coding experience claiming that Node.js is the messiah of the web. Just not worth it. In six months or so Bogue will quit Node and discover the new 'it thing' and ramble about that somewhere. The problem is that he writes about topics that he is not adequately educated on. He does this because he has a deep need to be seen as an expert.
The thing most bothering me right now is the lack of meaningful response from the companies that really matter: Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others. The responses we do have seem to be downright lies.