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I have to confess, I was a solid halfway through before I realized it was satire.
by tkfu 6y ago
I have to confess, I was a solid halfway through before I realized it was satire.
- noir_lord 6y agoYou missed the Sarte quote about programming in C at the top then. It's at least good satire, it's so close to the real kind of article it apes.
- miceeatnicerice 6y agoNot satire so much as an ironic dialectic - a progress through a series of (decreasingly?) daft ideas
- ben0x539 6y agoWhich ones are daft?
- dragonwriter 6y agoIt's not satire; the technique of peppering a work like this with slightly-modified-famous-out-of-domain-quotes is not a tool of satire but of implicit metaphor.
- ajuc 6y agoIs it? I agree with almost all of it.
- imposterr 6y agoIt most definitely isn't. It's written in a bit of an absurdist tone, but beneath all that it's a lot of solid advice about not over engineering things from the beginning and working iteratively.
- simonhamp 6y agoIt’s not satire. These are exceptionally pragmatic suggestions packaged up in well-written prose. Worth digesting
- ahaferburg 6y agoThat sounds dismissive, did you intend that? It's my favorite type of writing. It tickles your brain. Does he mean it like he says? Do I agree? It makes you think, even when it sounds like he's telling you what to do.