I like this post, because I realized a while ago that a switch in my brain flipped, and now the act of programming in a language I don't know barely slows me down. I pull up a language reference and just go to town.
There was a time when I wasn't confident enough to do that, and would avoid new languages/frameworks/whatever, because I didn't 'know' them. I am so much better now for having moved past that.
I think I agree more with the feel of the article than the actual statement. If his point is to say that you should persist even if you aren't perfect at something, then absolutely. If he's saying you should just write bad code and not worry about it, obviously, I disagree.
But when you start, you always write bad code. I learned python a few weeks ago for a pipeline for an iphone game I'm making. I'm learning Objective C right now. I know a lot of what I've written is probably crap -- but as I write more, I realize what was crap and fix it when I bump in to it.
The learning mindset is more important than the "stubbornly move forward" mindset. His skull demo example is a good story. If that person never learned another thing, he would eventually be driven insane by trying to deal with the complexity of a large scale project. If he learned ways to improve, moving forward, he could continue building even bigger and better bleeding skulls.
If you're only presenting something and don't care about code maintainability, this approach will work. Otherwise it's just stupid... you would never want to maintain some code that didn't go through a design process. It would be hell even if you wrote it yourself.
What this article is really stating is to spend most of your time on marketing and business ideas rather than building the product yourself. Coding like you don't care will not help matters unless you are painfully slow at coding with care.
That's kind of how I approached nift.ie ... the code is convoluted (which is probably why most task management systems don't handle subtasks), but hey, it works!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037576