On: Mr. Fix It - The Engineer's Mentality in Politics

[precisioncoder]

Wow this article seems deliberately offensive, even provocative. I was first angered, then frustrated and now amused by it. It certainly was emotionally entertaining for me at least. Surprised to run across this sort of thing on Hacker News though.

[mturmon → precisioncoder]

Same feelings. Here's another piece that also demonstrates his desire to provoke:

http://theamericanscholar.org/upper-middle-brow/

In this case, the kind of upper-middle-brow cultural consumers he is examining (in a rather unfriendly way) is the readers of the American Scholar.

So it's not just throwing stones at engineers. (And we are a touchy bunch, as this thread shows. ;-)