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> Thousands of engineers at companies like Google That's an appeal to authority. It's also worth noting that nodejs is not a Google project and it is barely u
by admax88q 8y ago
> Thousands of engineers at companies like Google
That's an appeal to authority. It's also worth noting that nodejs is not a Google project and it is barely used internally at all. Only for small toy projects. Google uses python for scripting, or java for real servers.
- onion2k 8y agoThat's an appeal to authority. It is, but it's also shorthand for "people who are likely to be good based on the fact they've been through a rigorous hiring process designed to filter out the worst engineers". Sometimes, maybe, you should let the principle of charity win over the rigorous rhetorical logic you can use to dismiss an argument because it broke The Rules you learned on LessWrong.
- myWindoonn 8y agoEx-Googler (Xoogler) here. It's an appeal to authority; Googlers don't know shit and FAANG employees aren't magically good at their jobs. Maybe you shouldn't try pulling the Principle of Charity to support an argument from authority.