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I think he's dangerous and posturing these posts to build a new following to replace the last one that he destroyed. I would quite like to keep the HN community out of it.

Fortunately having a weak point in an argument doesn't nullify the whole thing.

I have a hobby of keeping an eye on and occasionally critiquing 'cult of personality' types who build cults and scam their members. I am passionate about it, however I've never had contact with Mr. Bogue.

I believe the guy is dangerous. Take it as you will.

Yeah but this is a guy who is selling a guide on deploying Node.

If they are actually a magician a dismissive critic would hardly prevent them from 'saving' everyone from anything.

Seems pretty hypocritical of you considering you are in the same position.

Why would you presume that? Your mistake.

Or I could be myself thanks.

I just found this post, it's a pretty good review of the madness: http://evbogue.com/haters

"Learning to deploy Node.js is probably one of the hardest things I've done with my life to date. It's a different kind of challenge than traveling around the globe, or throwing out all of your shit."

Of course I'm not in a position to diagnose anyone with anything specifically, however I think erratic self-destructive behavior is in that realm.

"A mental disorder or psychiatric disorder is a psychological pattern or anomaly, potentially reflected in behavior, that is generally associated with distress or disability, and which is not considered part of normal development in a person's culture. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder

Regardless, my assessment of his mental health is irrelevant to my argument that he has no credibility for other substantial reasons.

Ev Bogue is a mentally unstable guy who comes out of the woodwork every so often to say crazy 'edgy' things. He generally builds little cults and then destroys them in fits of mania. His last title for himself was "Cybernetic Yogi."

After he destroyed his minimalist and post-human blogs and communities he's recently got into coding Node. Presumably because he lost all credibility in the other fields. His thing is to "quit" services. He quit Twitter, quit writing, quit Facebook, rejoined Twitter, deleted his blog, undeleted his blog, quit his identity, created a new one, and so on. This would all be very amusing if he didn't take it so seriously himself. He is at best, very mentally ill.

I find his current work particularly annoying because he's a guy who has about six months of coding experience claiming that Node.js is the messiah of the web. Just not worth it. In six months or so Bogue will quit Node and discover the new 'it thing' and ramble about that somewhere. The problem is that he writes about topics that he is not adequately educated on. He does this because he has a deep need to be seen as an expert.

Some back story: http://ariherzog.com/blogger-insists-on-twitter-users/ http://adamtervort.com/blog/2011/01/26/minimalism-isnt-dead-...

"Gwen Bell Blocked Me; Ev Bogue Blocked Me" https://plus.google.com/u/0/114850856787256556043/posts/GLYo...

"Far Beyond My Ego" (parody) http://farbeyondmyego.blogspot.com/

The thing most bothering me right now is the lack of meaningful response from the companies that really matter: Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others. The responses we do have seem to be downright lies.

I don't think there is a correlation there.

I don't follow.

Your mistake was assuming that anyone could be immune to persuasion or ideology.

Gladwell is a poor example.

Patriarchal bullshit is not what this guy needs. That said, I agree with the content of your first comment.

Maybe not "deep" but a lot of his lyrics are social commentary.

I find this funny because Martin Luther King turned out to be a plagiarist.

I feel like this petition could have been written so much more persuasively. Regardless, I signed.

I agree, who is this prosecutor?

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/contact.html

This guy is yet ANOTHER self help guru sort: http://postmasculine.com/

Perhaps you should read the article. Your snap judgement about it is incorrect.

Whining about why an article is on top of an internet news site is pathetic either way.

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

The fact that it is on top demonstrates that it is doing the trick.

Try getting your clothes tailored if you can afford it.

>even if you don't believe in the Singularity

This makes "the singularity" sound very much like a religion.

What items are being price fixed these days?

If you are going to call something out as fallacious, you should name which fallacy it is. Otherwise your statement is just as good as saying 'you are wrong!'

I don't follow.

Maybe, but that doesn't determine whether Facebook is in the right or not.