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Brin is simply alluding to something that's annoyed me many times about Yegge's posts, however insightful they sometimes are: Steve Yegge loves to hear himself
by miked 15y ago
Brin is simply alluding to something that's annoyed me many times about Yegge's posts, however insightful they sometimes are: Steve Yegge loves to hear himself write.
- 0x12 15y agoWhich bits would you leave out?
- jacques_chester 15y agoThe last third of Yegge's essay (I just read it) could be substantially cut, IMO. It's mostly restatements of earlier material. Here's the basic structure: 1. "I worked at Amazon, they introduced company-wide platforms. Microsoft and Facebook have these too." 2. "Now I work at Google. We have no such platform." 3. "Platforms are awesome and we should have one." aaaaaaand the rest is details.