> The blog would've been much better if it had been written in a less confrontational style, so the mistake becomes more of a learning experience for everyone i

> The blog would've been much better if it had been written in a less confrontational style, so the mistake becomes more of a learning experience for everyone instead of this finger-pointing match. I wholeheartedly agree, both in this specific instance and in general. There's a reason experienced learners generally (in my experience) take a non-assumptive/non-assertive tone. When you've learned enough times how little you know, you've somewhat trained yourself to be open to learning sooner than trying to assert what you 'knew' as certainty. Though the latter tends to be a more comforting notion, the idea that you "have the measure of things;" when your 'being wrong' leads to a misprediction or failure, and you wish to transition to 'knowing' what was correct with grace, which is easier when you 'weren't being a dick about it', i.e. being nonconfrontational. I like to think of this SMBC graph on knowledge in relation to this. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2177 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2177