Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege

Re:Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege by zbentley on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:39PM (#16249646)

To be honest? I found Yegge's leaving-Google post to be one of his most underwhelming to date. Even if you don't agree, it's a bloody blog post on the internet. It's not calling people out. It's not advancing a cause. It's someone talking about changing jobs; it could as well be a personal journal entry.

Spending as much time on it as Kessler did seems like a waste of time. Spending as much time as Krubner did on a rebuttal to Kessler seems doubly so. It's the height of making mountains of molehills.

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Re:Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege by mikestew on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:15AM (#16250233)

It reminds me of what Auberon Waugh [0] called the “chattering class”. Much ado about little, and a certain class feels an obligation to weigh in regardless.

[0] http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/26/1075087954617.html

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Re:Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege by susan_hall on Sunday January 28, 2018 @12:38PM (#16252216)

I agree about Kessler. Why would she write an essay about Yegge? Slow news day? Writers block? Who cares about Yegge's blog post? How did she even find it? Still, QZ has a big audience. QZ is popular in Silicon Valley. I feel like once something is up on QZ, people are going to respond to it.

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