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Easy, tiger. Be nice. It's a plausible line of reasoning; getting personal interferes with the education process. You can't persuade if you alienate.

• ajross 14y ago
  Fair enough. I was terribly impolite. Though to be fair, sticks (via public shaming, in this case I guess) work as well as carrots often. The "coming to the defense of clearly broken software" thing (which happens far, far too much) is a pet peeve. People who make arguments like that are generally the ones who write code like Opera's parser.
  • akkartik 14y ago
    Yeah, 99% of everything is crap. Large companies aren't immune to that. If anything, the opposite. <shrug> whatchagonnado? :) Public shaming works to stamp out activities that the shamee knows to be bad/anti-social. I think the case here is well-intentioned.
    • jessedhillon 14y ago
      Public shaming also only works if the shamer knows they are right. I love giving a shaming as much as anyone else (maybe more?), but it's not a posture that's compatible with learning. It requires becoming entrenched.
  • xentronium 14y ago
    When you are not right, attempts at public shaming look fairly stupid.