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Having a community that challenges assumptions is why I come here.

• reificator 9y ago
  Even going back to my teen years I've always tried to avoid ending up in a bubble of agreement. It's become even more important of a skill in the age of the internet. Whenever I'm told that I'm not allowed to disagree for some reason or another, I immediately stop and reevaluate my views. Usually they don't change, but it's worth it for the times that they do. And often times when I've changed my views like that, there's a cultural shift a little while later. A lot of what is held as sacred truth is due to fear of the "opposing idea" being right. Think about programming in the late 90s and early 2000s, but not believing OO to be a panacea. I use OO when it's appropriate, but it's often not. And speaking up about that in those times meant you were viewed as ignorant. If you program in Java in the year 2000, you have a vested interest in OO adoption. You've invested your time in a language that was explicitly designed to not allow for anything but OO. And if OO is not the end-all be-all of programming, then maybe you've wasted your time. So anyone claiming otherwise is indirectly threatening your livelihood. You're terrified that they might be right, so you insist that they never could be.
• nautilus12 9y ago
  Yeah but what happens when it becomes a compulsion? After a while it becomes kind of annoying.