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And then I stopped reading.
by mikeycgto 9y ago
And then I stopped reading.
- klez 9y agoSo you judge a non-technical article written by a non-technical person on the fact that he doesn't know that two programming language with a very similar name are not the same language?
- majewsky 9y agoIt shows that the author is not willing to invest a few minutes to fact-check this particular assertion that they're putting in the article. After something like this, one cannot stop wondering how many more assertions in this article are false.
- DanBC 9y agoBut you should be assuming that all articles you read are full of errors. You spotted this error because you know the difference between Java and Javascript. But what about the stuff that you don't know? How do you spot those errors?
- rounce 9y agoI look things up that I don't know. Right click -> Search for '<term>'.
- majewsky 9y agoEasy: I can't. This effect is known as Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
- factotvm 9y agoThat they're putting in the first sentence.
- foepys 9y agoWell, the author could have looked up Brendan Eich on Wikipedia...