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You are correct, experience to distinguish differences is important. The original commentor really went for the "it's just X, why is it better than Y". There
by jmspring 11y ago
You are correct, experience to distinguish differences is important. The original commentor really went for the "it's just X, why is it better than Y".
There are some who have the experience, pallet, and knowledge where they could easily answer that question across every nuance brought up.
At the same point, given the tone of the original comment, there are people where any explanation will not make a difference.
Even more absurd is the main negative commentators may be the same type of people to push one popular coding solution over another because "popular".
Just like becoming adept with coding (not instantaneous web scale, redesign a few months later), cooking, knowledge of ingredients, experimentation, and learning takes time.
Three years on rice? The Japanese have built a culture around learning very specific techniques in-depth which has merit.
Your skepticism is spot on. The OC and similar comments seem typical of a tech culture that needs to get out and experience more.
- archagon 11y agoBlind studies have shown that wine experts aren't nearly as good at identifying wine as they think they are. Same thing with high-end audio. People are incredibly susceptible to the placebo effect, and I think it's good to be skeptical when it comes to sensory matters — especially ones where the entrenched position is "this is sooo much better than everything else" and the price (whether in dollars or years of life given) is incredibly high. The brain is incentivized to value the product in these kinds of situation far out of proportion to its actual value.