It's not too long, it's too badly written (as exemplified by this "you're" among other things). There's none of Yegge's articles I didn't read fully once I star

It's not too long, it's too badly written (as exemplified by this "you're" among other things). There's none of Yegge's articles I didn't read fully once I started and I don't need to tell you how long they are. edit: I read the whole thing, it's really horrible how the bad style and orthograph makes it hard to focus on what's said. Speaking of focus, it's really ironic to get a big lecture about how important the ability to focus is coming from someone who can't even focus enough to write proper English (your/you're, their/they're, come on): "If you are finding that reading a multi-page blog essay is far too long, then you are clearly having problems focusing. [...] However, it's not all bad. If you've made it this far -- and it wasn't just blind luck in skipping text -- then it means you do have some ability to focus. It might just be a good idea to work on that a little, or possible a lot. Focus. Focus. Focus." Stylistic issues and common deformations (ya, ain't, cause) aside, here's the objective mistakes I found: "Get on with it", *you're* inner voice is screaming, adding in "just give me the *highlites*, the bullet points, the summary, dude. These things may help you if you've already had exposure, but they just ain't *the* got the knowledge in them. If you want the knowledge then *you've have* to get the knowledge, otherwise you know nothing. "Well, I don't want to waste my precious time read someone else's long rambling crud!", *you're might* be screaming by now. [...] But *its* impossible to squish all of the knowledge into summary. [...] Honestly, *you* a roving accident waiting to happen. [...] Ponder it, *its* not hard once you get used to it. If they're out there telling you otherwise, you know *their* just blowing smoke. [...] then *you're* problem is [...] then there is no way *you're* code is going to be "great" As a last point, I found him pretty unwarrantly condescending.