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> This looks like code generated by an IT employee at a local soap manufacturing company Too bad you go and ruin a perfectly reasonable comment with that crap.
by mseebach 15y ago
> This looks like code generated by an IT employee at a local soap manufacturing company
Too bad you go and ruin a perfectly reasonable comment with that crap.
- ajross 15y agoWhich moral calculus allows you to call someone else's work "crap", where I can't cast aspersions on the quality of technology adoption in the soap manufacturing industry?
- mseebach 15y agoI didn't know the phrase "cast aspersions", so I went to look it up. It means "to slander". I'm sorry I slandered your slander.
- ajross 15y agoTo be clear: I was just pointing out the hypocrisy in pulling out my (admittedly) mildly ad hominem slur comparing the OP author with an IT robot and calling it "crap". You can't reasonably demand civil discourse if you aren't willing to practice it. But to be honest: I don't think my quip was really that bad. Did I hit too close to home? Do you do soap automation?
- Danieru 15y agoMseebach was insulting your words, based on their content. You were insulting people, based on their jobs. And now you're attacking mseebach. In truth you don't sound very repentant.
- ajross 15y agoSo my crime is the use of a mild (and very common) ad hominem in a context where I would expect most people would see the humor, not being uncivil? And it's OK to call things "crap" just so long as I don't make an ad hominem argument in doing so? Sorry, your argument is steaming crap. The idea that one can't invoke the pervasive metaphor of bad IT-generated code (or, I guess, imply that the local soap industry might do it) but that it's OK to flame away at the author who does is just dumb. And for the record: I don't believe I expressed any repentence. :)