"As an aside, the creator of pinboard, is the anti-PG, (or at least the anti-PG of 2005)"
That is an unfair and extremely misleading label to apply to the author:
- your selective quote is immediately followed by "Hee hee", which most readers would interpret to mean that said paragraph (or indeed the entire post, since those are the last two words) is a somewhat good-natured poke.
- the criticism in the post is scoped only to the hackers<=>painters analogy
- elsewhere in the post he says "Graham is an excellent author when he sticks to topics that he knows well"
Hardly anti-PG. He's just not a fan of the analogy PG used in some essays. Don't drum up conflict where there is none.
That is an unfair and extremely misleading label to apply to the author:
- your selective quote is immediately followed by "Hee hee", which most readers would interpret to mean that said paragraph (or indeed the entire post, since those are the last two words) is a somewhat good-natured poke.
- the criticism in the post is scoped only to the hackers<=>painters analogy
- elsewhere in the post he says "Graham is an excellent author when he sticks to topics that he knows well"
Hardly anti-PG. He's just not a fan of the analogy PG used in some essays. Don't drum up conflict where there is none.