This led me to go read a number of entries on alarmingdevelopment.org

There's some great interesting topics here, along with some of the most patronising discussion I've seen in a while. There's only so much of this "This is a topic that literally kills programmer brain cells. I’m going to do my best to be fair and not kill brain cells, and avoid getting called a loser by the peanut gallery for disagreeing with you." I can read