"The best I can do, therefore, is this: my advice is to open your eyes to the pervasive influence of culture on all the things you deplore; to acquire and use w

"The best I can do, therefore, is this: my advice is to open your eyes to the pervasive influence of culture on all the things you deplore; to acquire and use whatever tools, from semiotics or literary criticism or whatever, seem to be handy in understanding the water of myth around you. And when you get there: write about it (or sing, or make movies). This, really, is the key thing. Not only do we need to talk more, not less, about how we develop software, we also need to talk about the things we say: we need critique." if only the discussion on hacker news would actually take this advice instead of arguing arcane bullshit. Hoping a few will take this tack. Please surprise me.