Well, first of all, he is mentioned here solely on his Excel process, and in that regards, his tweets about Harambe or purchase of a hip hop album are completely irrelevant, and honestly it is nice to see a community that can discuss a part of a persons work without tainting the view of that with other workings of said person.

But if you do hate him, you can apparently call him and tell him why and he'll take the time to discuss with you why you hate him, and he does this quite calmly and rationally (given the situation)[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuinpSlKFEo

Might be of help to someone else to realize that you are talking about Martin Shkreli, rather than Spolsky.

I missed the parent you were referencing, and thought one of the child comments was saying that Joel Spolsky was out on bail for securities fraud (which was the result, obviously, of me not catching who you were talking about)

oops!

:-D

Ooooh thanks. I've been reading a lot of Spolsky's blog posts from 2005-2006... I was thinking, what's happened to this guy in the last 10 years? Everyone hates him? Securities fraud? What?

I'm not a fan, but I do see and appreciate his point of view.

His twitter is usually a gas too.

No, he has a following. I'd say most people have no idea he does lessons and streams video games on youtube.

It feels like people react to him the way they do Al Capone or Jordan Belfort. Obviously he's a jerk, it looks like he was probably eyeballs deep in securities fraud, but it's so audacious and disconnected from real life that it's like watching a scumbag in a movie.

Probably we're all better off with the law coming down on him, but that doesn't preclude a day-to-day fascination.

Perhaps this helps http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/martin-shkreli-pharma...

> The identity he creates, he says, is “an extremely weird form of sarcasm.”

I'm sure this helps....

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13696336/1/retrophin-with-he...

My opinion of the guy rose sharply after I learned that his drug pricing practices were standard for the industry, and that he did nothing that other companies like Valeant and Allergan have been doing at 100x the scale.

See his video linked above. It's really good and its clear the guy is bright.