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The word aside, he's not wrong. That article is filled with flowery non-sense, making long prosaic paragraphs from thin-air. I like reading long articles, but t
by laxatives 9y ago
The word aside, he's not wrong. That article is filled with flowery non-sense, making long prosaic paragraphs from thin-air. I like reading long articles, but this doesn't contribute much.
- rl3 9y agoI respectfully disagree. The article made considerable effort to evade techno-solutionist fantasies.
- rl3 9y agoNobody? Tough crowd.
- dang 9y agoQuite possibly! But a bad article can contain a good word. I wanted to stand up for 'heterodox', first because words are my friends and I like my friends, and second because HN is a textual place and good English is part of the business here.
- DonHopkins 9y agoHave you tried deconstructing it? http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html How To Deconstruct Almost Anything: My Postmodern Adventure by Chip Morningstar, June 1993 "Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right." -- Donald Norman