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He was not 'failing to read everything'. He was either 'failing to read anything', or, more likely, reading a fair bit and intentionally stripping all referenc
by onan_barbarian 16y ago
He was not 'failing to read everything'.
He was either 'failing to read anything', or, more likely, reading a fair bit and intentionally stripping all reference to this existing knowledge out of his column for whatever reason. The result was unsurprisingly sophomoric, which I suppose is why it has 150 points on HN.
- grammaton 16y agoOr, possibly, he was offering anecdotal observations, and he's not as dumb and lazy and unmotivated as people here are making him out to be. I know it's surprising, but people do come up with these things on their own sometimes.