I&#x27;m the author of this essay.  This must be at least the third time that it has appeared on Hacker News.  I&#x27;m starting to get sick of it, myself, but I keep it up because so many people like it (at the bottom of the page, you can see the translations; all done gratis by volunteers).<p>I wrote it during a period when I was especially fascinated with Lisp and got caught up in the theorizing to which the Lisp community can be prone.  Nowadays, I freelance in front-end web development and doing Lisp hacking is something that I put on the back-burner.