His post was very self-righteous, as if Grab had some level of moral superiority over Uber. Once he awakens to the fact that Grab is just as "immoral" as Uber, I hope he writes another post eating humble pie. All the ridesharing companies behave exactly the same, especially the ones in Asia that can escape from the biased views of American reporters.

> Another takeaway is that Uber can be beaten, when a few years ago they seemed unbeatable. Frankly I personally think Uber is gonna lose SEA as well.

I wonder if he was privy to this deal while writing this post.

I'm interested in why that is relevant to the story?

Also can you please explain to me why Steve Yegge is so important? You obviously felt this point was important enough to mention.

It seems relevant to HN's discussion of the story, because his blog post about leaving Google for Grab got 311 points + 182 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220666 , and a mainstream media article about that blog post got another 180 points + 89 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16226439 . (It looks like you commented on both threads.)

I don't read the comment above is a reflection of Steve Yegge's importance in general, just as a useful piece of information linking this news to something HN previously thought was important (his move to Grab).

It's also likely that many others here, like me, only heard of Grab in the first place, because of the Yegge post.

>"Yeah, the GP's history is rife with directionless rage. This is just his latest lashing-out"

Whoa. Wait, thinking critically and questioning things amounts to "directionless rage" and "lashing out"?

I find both your dismissiveness and judgmental nature very alarming. Since when is HN a place for that?

I am many things but angry is not one of them. There wasn't anything even remotely uncivil in my comment.

I enjoy HN and an generally make a point to be civil and polite.

There's a great deal of irony in the presumptuousness and arrogance of your own comment. But thank you for validating my original suspicion.

Even an unknown engineers blog about Grab would be relevant in a post about (get this) Grab acquiring Uber SEA.

Sounds like you just don't like Steve Yegge.. regardless of your opinion of him, its certainly not irrelevant to point to his post. Go away.

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>"Go away"

Really? Are you that immature?

There is zero connection between the nature of this story and an engineers blog post about changing jobs. That was the nature of my question. I don't care about Steve Yegge one way or the other.

Amusingly your response bolsters my observation of the cultish mentality around Steve Yegge and how questioning that is for some reason not tolerated.

> Really? Are you that immature?

Would you please not post uncivil comments to HN, regardless of how some other person behaves? It's not ok to break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

He's a well-known technology blogger who went to work for the company mentioned in the headline.

A well known-technology blogger a decade ago?

I see 3 blog post in the last 10 years.

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

And I recommend you go read everything he’s written.

And yet you can't say why. I just should because its "Yegge."

It's fascinating to me the cargo-culting of this person on HN. It's funny that the even questioning this person on HN invites immediate ire and downvotes.

At one point I did go read a handful of articles and I found none of them remarkable. I just found them self-indulgent.

Of course I can say why, but you didn’t ask that question.

His posts are thoroughly entertaining and well written. They’re long, but true to the title of “blog rants”. You might end up disagreeing with some of his opinions but that’s ok.

And if you’ve read some, and they’re not for you, that’s ok. But no need to shit on other people for enjoying them and claiming we’re in some kind of cult.

At the time they were written, his blog was one of the best in my opinion.

So you do know who he is then?

You’re being downvoted since you are obviously trying to make a different point - that Yegge is overrated / overhyped / whatever - than what you led with, I.e. pretending to not know who he is and questioning why even mentioning him would be relevant.

I never pretended not to know who he was. I simply asked why it was relevant to mention him in this context.

Well that’s the appearance you gave by asking the question you did and saying there are only 3 posts from 10 years ago. But you know that.

He's an interesting outspoken programmer that a lot of people respect his opinions.

Did you read that blog he wrote about Grab? I am curious if you respect his opinions in that. Most of it is pretty cringe-worthy not least of which of are his neo-colonial claims and stereotyping. Some highlights from the blog post include:

"I’m getting myself involved in a land war in Asia."

" ... because — as any Asian person will happily tell you — they love their food more than you do"

"Southeast Asians use smartphones possibly more than anyone else in the world."

Ive been reading his blog posts for years, if you are going to form an opinion over one post Im not sure what to say to you.

> "I’m getting myself involved in a land war in Asia."

This is a humorous reference to the movie "Princess Bride," not a call to arms for neo-colonialism.

And you realize that that's a reference to General Montgomery right?