From: Asen Bozhilov on
Garrett Smith wrote:

> I decided to leave a comment, but coming back several days later, I
> found the comment was not approved. I emailed the author but I got no reply.

Comments there are unwelcome. I have posted too, but unfortunately
Zakas's filter puts my comment in the junk. If you want your comments
to be posted, you should not disproof Zakas posts. That is the
true.


> Trying to impress less experienced developers with untested statements
> is bad, but understandable. Publishing that online and trying to pass
> that off as some form of helpful education is worse. Worse yet is
> actively ignoring valid criticism. On some level, he must have
> recognized that yes, the information posted was factually false.
> Censoring the comment should have provided some indication that the
> entry was not quite right, but there it remains, unchanged.
>
> I get the sense that Nicholas Zakas lives in a small world of web
> developers that are a lot less competent than he is and that he's not
> used to being told when he is wrong.
>
> A little social intelligence applied, he would have taken a civil high
> road by owning the mistakes. Then again, he may very well have decided
> that someone else pointing out a mistake was not considered
> "constructive criticism" but "rude" and "off-topic".

He does not deserve such an attention. He just tries to sell his
books. And he does not give a damn about our criticisms. I remember a
sentence: "The good programmer writes programs, the bad writes books
instead and try to teach other". I am not sure how that is true, but
Zakas a proof that.
However, I do not want to wasting my time with him. I hope someone who
reads Zakas blog/books to read your post here and decide
itself.