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by _doctor_love 66 days ago
I'm a long-time Steve Yegge fan but a major Gas Town hater (now Gas City too, I guess). It's doubling down on all the wrong metaphors.

I also simply detest how Gas Town is modeled fundamentally on an extractive and destructive metaphor, the 19th century factory. I want to live in a verdant software garden, not a dystopian industrialist hellscape.

In my view the StrongDM guys are on the right long-term path.

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Steve Yegge, quite simply, has jumped the shark. He’s gone meta. The line between genius and utter lunacy is very thin.
>> I also simply detest how Gas Town is modeled fundamentally on an extractive and destructive metaphor, the 19th century factory.

I actually think the naming is apt because we are on the starting stages of a second Industrial Revolution.