Steve Yegge's Drunken Blog Rants

assertTrue() recently did a series on this. If you're interested in this kind of thing, it's worth a read. Here's one of the posts (ignore the linkbait headline) - http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-live-30-longer-maybe-mor…

Sounds to me like he's either temporarily enraged, or is trying to get fired. The spashscreen does 1 thing, it tells the user that the app is loading and you don't need to click the exe/icon again. His solution to a 5-10 second load time is to provide a fake UI, record phantom mouse clicks, and also give the user a game to play, only makes everything worse. Some apps have to initialize, and without that you are left with an empty shell of a UI that has no functionality. Or even worse, a slugish UI that initializes in-place or during work... Which then causes the typical user to go online and rant about how his app is broken or unresponsive. Though I like what he has posted on the rest of his blog... http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/

Oh, gah, submissions from assertTrue( ) are showing up on HN's home page again. I've just read the short blog post kindly submitted here by the blog post author, and I don't see any added value from it that wouldn't come from any other review of the book that the blog author recommends. I am not worried about Amazon (but I don't use Amazon cloud services at all). Previous comments about this blog and its editorial practices from other HN readers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196734 by another participant on an earlier article from the same blog: > > It appears you've made some sort of resolution to publish and promote a blog entry per day in 2013. 40 entries in 41 days this year vs. 46 in all of 2012. You should reconsider - whatever your reasons were, I doubt they included a desire to develop a reputation for presenting topics that were sensationalized and thinly researched [1] produced with a pace that ensures discredited theories dont get reviewed. [1] http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/drug-companies-stop-hiding-your… > Wow, nice spot and they have all been submitted to HN. I have never seen anyone's submission history be so hell bent on self promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog That was followed up by another set of comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240084 > I'm beginning to flag these posts. I agree.

"So before you go around claiming that serif typefaces are easier to read than sans-serif typefaces, you might want to do a little checking around. The embarrassing truth is, there's no solid research to back up that claim." Source with references: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability-myth.html One of many studies that show it's actually additional spacing that's at work when small text readability is improved with serifs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/

>after it's gone, after it's cured once and for all, this bane of human existence, this No. 2 Cause of Death, we will have extended human life a grand total of (drum roll, please) 3.3 years http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/taeubers-paradox-and-life-expec…

layperson cite for finicky placebos: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/are-placebos-really-sugar-pills…

Ah, this site again. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327200 for context. The author's posts vary greatly in quality. Sometimes they're reasonable. Sometimes they're stuff like "antidepressants in tap water cause autism" (http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/antidepressants-tap-water-and-a… and "Do warnings on cigarette packs cause lung cancer?" (http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/do-lung-cancer-warning-labels-c… When an article makes it to the front page of HN, a domain expert usually comes along to tear it apart. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5140049 for a recent example. Combined with the author's constant self-promotion (see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog), I tend not to believe much written there. He's optimizing for page views, not scientific accuracy.

You should check out the Serif readability myth: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability-myth.html

The same author wrote an article called "Lung Cancer and the Power of Suggestion" recently, which would suggest his hypothesis: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/lung-cancer-and-power-of-sugges…

It appears you've made some sort of resolution to publish and promote a blog entry per day in 2013. 40 entries in 41 days this year vs. 46 in all of 2012. You should reconsider - whatever your reasons were, I doubt they included a desire to develop a reputation for presenting topics that were sensationalized and thinly researched [1] produced with a pace that ensures discredited theories dont get reviewed. [1] http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/drug-companies-stop-hiding-your…

Read "How the Internet is Changing Economics." http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-internet-is-changing-econom…

"To go fast, do less" --http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-write-fast-code.html

From the guidelines: > Please submit the original source. If a blog post > reports on something they found on another site, > submit the latter. Here's the actual item, rather than the reddit submission: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2010/02/voronoi-tessellation-in-linear-…

Can a mod change the URL on the submission to the non-shortened one? http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2010/01/nasas-one-man-stealth-plane.htm…

yes, he really was that right (link to the post): http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/06/heres-what-opera-is-about-to-un…

Correct URL is here: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/javascript-needs-elvis.html