1. Entertaining but often wrong in subtle ways that could confuse a novice programmer. As an example see his opinion the need to know C.
2. Yes, much better then experts exchange.
3. He does that often, make mistakes and then boldly admit to them. The last one I remember was his article on password salting. Yes, that's good but then again what choice does he have, you can't erase your past from the internet.
That being said, this particular entry is a tease to the NEXT entry where we might learn something valuable about security.
I'd prefer if we saw many, many fewer coding horror articles here because I do believe the interests of his fans and those of elite hackers are mutually exclusive.
2. Yes, much better then experts exchange.
3. He does that often, make mistakes and then boldly admit to them. The last one I remember was his article on password salting. Yes, that's good but then again what choice does he have, you can't erase your past from the internet.
That being said, this particular entry is a tease to the NEXT entry where we might learn something valuable about security.
I'd prefer if we saw many, many fewer coding horror articles here because I do believe the interests of his fans and those of elite hackers are mutually exclusive.