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Aaaaah, Steve Yegge. Quickly becoming the Malcolm Gladwell of Computer Programming.
These kinds of notions used to be Outliers® in his essays, but this may be The Tipping Point®, whereafter he skips the half-baking and just swallows his notions raw. One of the costs of fame. sigh
These kinds of notions used to be Outliers® in his essays, but this may be The Tipping Point®, whereafter he skips the half-baking and just swallows his notions raw. One of the costs of fame. sigh
Also see http://sweaxis.org and http://sweaxis.org/stats/age
That said, his doubling down on the political metaphors has introduced even more irrelevant US-centric bait into the discussion. I think there's some merit to the idea that there's an axis - but you can't say that it's not about US politics, then compare one side to the Moral Majority.