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In my experience people making fun of technology X (for all X) only reveal their own lack of understanding of not only X but their own tools too. Every tool has
by Promarged 8y ago
In my experience people making fun of technology X (for all X) only reveal their own lack of understanding of not only X but their own tools too. Every tool has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Fanatics of any kind always remind of this fragment of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
> You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
- rootlocus 8y ago> In my experience people making fun of technology X (for all X) only reveal their own lack of understanding of not only X but their own tools too. I find mocking X (for any X) to be occasionally educational https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGkIsUBfanQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGkIsUBfanQ
- mercer 8y agoI love that talk, but for some reason I never found it to be mocking in a 'bad' way. Perhaps it's because all these bad things are so obviously bad that they're like 'the sun rising'.
- icebraining 8y agoHaving doubt in one's dogmas sounds healthy.
- chriswarbo 8y ago> Every tool has its own advantages and disadvantages. I agree with this, but only as a conversation starter, not a rebuttal-killer. When I was a PHP dev I had a colleage who liked to say "the only tool nobody complains about is the one that nobody uses", as if that somehow makes all tools equal. Yes, all languages have flaws; no, not all languages will set the font colour to 33200000000000 because they guess that the string "332e11" should actually be treated as an integer written in exponential notation. Looking back, I guess it's a form whataboutism (although without any specific examples). PS: I absolutely agree with (almost) everyone that personal attacks are absolutely unjustified.