Steve Yegge - Programming Politically Part 2

I was wondering how he could top bringing political labels into programming language discussion... and then he makes an analogy to prisoners urinating on command. I'm not sure what I think of the actual argument in that case, but I'm certainly impressed with his imagination.

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.

Part 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365255

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

Also see http://sweaxis.org and http://sweaxis.org/stats/age