Brin is simply alluding to something that's annoyed me many times about Yegge's ...

0x12 · on Oct 20, 2011

Which bits would you leave out?

jacques_chester · on Oct 20, 2011

The last third of Yegge's essay (I just read it) could be substantially cut, IMO. It's mostly restatements of earlier material.

Here's the basic structure:

1. "I worked at Amazon, they introduced company-wide platforms. Microsoft and Facebook have these too."

2. "Now I work at Google. We have no such platform."

3. "Platforms are awesome and we should have one."

aaaaaaand the rest is details.