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>> If you're fighting, you've lost. > I don't really get this attitude, it means that nothing new will ever overcome anything that's been established. I think
by tines 10y ago
>> If you're fighting, you've lost.
> I don't really get this attitude, it means that nothing new will ever overcome anything that's been established.
I think he's trying to quote Dan Saks' "extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++" when he said "If you're arguing, you've lost." Saks, at least, meant that if you're striving with someone, you've already lost because your partner is already in a "frame" of mind set against your arguments that is unbreakably strong, even by logic. The talk is really good just for that aspect.
- Manishearth 10y agoAh, I see. Yeah. I read that post more as a demonstration than a "fighting". But that's a valid point.
- gravypod 10y agoI would have linked the video had I remembered the talk but exactly. This is what I meant.