Re:Portrait of a N00b
by aston on Monday February 11, 2008 @02:43AM
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Every time Yegge makes some comment about needing to be more terse in an essay longer than The Iliad, you have to chuckle a little.
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Re:Portrait of a N00b
by pchristensen on Monday February 11, 2008 @03:29PM
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He never said that prose should be terse. In fact, he is on record as saying that in order for writing, it has to be long enough to force the reader to remember it. If you're not willing to take ~15-20 min to read his essays, are you really going to internalize his recommendations?
Re:Portrait of a N00b
by Xichekolas on Monday February 11, 2008 @10:58AM
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Judging by his blog posts, can you imagine how much commenting he did as a n00b? Something tells me those examples at the top of his post weren't that far off.
he talks about the length of his blogs here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-theory-201-...
quite funny