Re:Yegge, Clojure, and Arc
by fogus on Friday February 06, 2009 @09:59PM
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I'm definitely catching a lot of flack for the spurn comment, and justifiably so considering this window into your work day. I would say that the essay in general was an attempt at levity, as I hoped smart-alecky comments like "birds sang", "voices of children", "Christopher Hitchens", etc... would convey. Although a word like spurn may imply the opposite, having enjoyed your essays, interviews (when I can find them), and especially Arc itself, I am the last person in that world that would tell you how you go about your creative process.
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The second footnote, in which you qualify that comment, should be inlined instead. That clarification, or the lack of it, has too much of an impact on the tone of the rest of the article.
The point of footnotes is that their content is not worth interrupting the flow of the main text. It should be safe for the reader to leave them for later, or skip them altogether.
The only reason that line has become the focal point of the essay's tone is because we're discussing this on "Mr. Graham's" site.
I didn't say it was the focal point, but it is indeed quite central to the thesis defended.
There are comments to this effect in the blog's site too, and the author felt the need for the footnote. Thus, it's not just HN bias.