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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by verletx64 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:37AM (#15161622)
I think what's getting me is a really superficial notion of what 'solving problems' means.

It's a leaking ceiling, a bucket under the leak ostensibly 'fixes' your original problem of water spilling out onto the floor, but now you've got the problem that at some point, the bucket will fill up.

It's rare for most problems you face in the workplace for the difficult part to be actually solving the problem. It's solving it in a way that doesn't just create three other messes elsewhere, in a way that somebody else can come along and understand how the problem was solved and in a way that doesn't hamstring you in the future.

Some of these quotes are really baffling. I mean, he must be being facetious or something.

Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by err4nt on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:35PM (#15163023)
I think it's called self-deprecating humour. I don't know too much about this guy, but these quotes endear him to somebody like me who is learning as much JavaScript as I need to do the things I want to do, but didn't necessarily come from a CS background. He seems like he's questioning what is pragmatic by using a bit of hyperbole.
Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by DonHopkins on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:52AM (#15161704)
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. -JWZ

Jamie is facetious. Rasmus is just incompetent.