DHH created a firestorm of comments over this posting on Signal vs. Noise the other day. The opposition to the posting was equally split between those who were offended by the use of the ‘f-bomb’ and those who did not agree that offline web apps were unnecessary.
I was more than a little shocked by the vehemence of people’s responses. I thought one of the things people respect about DHH and 37signals is that they are opinionated. Is it that people don’t like opinions expressed so definitively? And by definitively, I mean with an expletive. It seems as though most people missed the content of the post, which was simply the statement of an opinion. Not a call to arms. Not a personal attack.
If this was a calculated move to spark a conversation, then well done! If it happened by chance, all the better. Hopefully, when the dust settles, people can exchange ideas about what web apps they would like to use offline or what book they read the last time they didn’t have WiFi available.
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