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In fairness, barrkel is not the author of the original article, he's just defending him. I initially made this mistake too--hence my "I'm afraid that people wi

by ionfish 16y ago

In fairness, barrkel is not the author of the original article, he's just defending him. I initially made this mistake too--hence my "I'm afraid that people will believe you!" (my emphasis). Unfortunately it's too late to edit my post above to clarify.

btilly 15y ago
Do you have evidence that they are different people? Until you pointed it out, I hadn't noticed the fact that the user name being used here is different than the name that the blog was posted under and different yet again from the person who chose to post it here. But I could easily see person A posting to a blog, person B putting it here, person A noticing the traffic, and coming here to comment with a user name that didn't match. So it is not clear to me that the person responding here is not the person who wrote the article.
- ionfish 15y ago
  The article was written by someone called Martin Matusiak, or at least that's what it says on his home page [1]. Apparently he lives in Utrecht. barrkel's blog [2] (linked off his HN profile), on the other hand, says his name is Barry Kelly, and he lives in London. They do, however, both work with Delphi. [1] http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/ http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/ [2] http://blog.barrkel.com/ http://blog.barrkel.com/
- barrkel 15y ago
  I think the prior probability of me (or any other random commenter who's been on this site for many years) being any posted article's author has got to pretty small, and that you ought to have a higher bar of evidence for believing such than the ability to easily imagine such a scenario, especially in some kind of sock-puppet case, which you seem to be implying. (Frankly, it's bizarre and a little insulting, because it implies I had a conflict of interest I didn't disclose.)
barrkel 15y ago
I am indeed not related to the original article's author to any reasonable degree. Also, I wasn't defending him - or rather, I didn't see myself as defending him. I was probing the strength of the criticism; I wondered if it applied to my own interest in the bijective property (I have literally spent years of my life on the data binding problem). I more or less agree with you, FWIW.

by ionfish 16y ago

btilly 15y ago

Do you have evidence that they are different people? Until you pointed it out, I hadn't noticed the fact that the user name being used here is different than the name that the blog was posted under and different yet again from the person who chose to post it here. But I could easily see person A posting to a blog, person B putting it here, person A noticing the traffic, and coming here to comment with a user name that didn't match. So it is not clear to me that the person responding here is not the person who wrote the article.

ionfish 15y ago
The article was written by someone called Martin Matusiak, or at least that's what it says on his home page [1]. Apparently he lives in Utrecht. barrkel's blog [2] (linked off his HN profile), on the other hand, says his name is Barry Kelly, and he lives in London. They do, however, both work with Delphi. [1] http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/ http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/ [2] http://blog.barrkel.com/ http://blog.barrkel.com/
barrkel 15y ago
I think the prior probability of me (or any other random commenter who's been on this site for many years) being any posted article's author has got to pretty small, and that you ought to have a higher bar of evidence for believing such than the ability to easily imagine such a scenario, especially in some kind of sock-puppet case, which you seem to be implying. (Frankly, it's bizarre and a little insulting, because it implies I had a conflict of interest I didn't disclose.)

barrkel 15y ago

I am indeed not related to the original article's author to any reasonable degree. Also, I wasn't defending him - or rather, I didn't see myself as defending him. I was probing the strength of the criticism; I wondered if it applied to my own interest in the bijective property (I have literally spent years of my life on the data binding problem). I more or less agree with you, FWIW.