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Um, I suggest you look up the definition of the word "Hyperbole". I understand that as a Googler, you wish to defend a fellow Googler, but please differentiate
by manarth 13y ago
Um, I suggest you look up the definition of the word "Hyperbole". I understand that as a Googler, you wish to defend a fellow Googler, but please differentiate between the arguments of "I disagree with the premise of your argument" and "You're wrong". As a Googler, I'd hope you are reasonably technically literate, and therefore could come up with a rather more refined response than "You're just wrong".
- chc 13y agoHyperbole means exaggerating something, usually for emphasis or humor. Even taking your comment as hyperbole, the intended, non-exaggerated meaning still appears to be "this person has insufficient experience to speak on this subject." But the person in question is actually very experienced in this area. Given that, I don't think we can blame James if he didn't understand — it's hard to see what the actual meaning behind the statement could have been.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoYeah, I know what hyperbole means. The problem is your comment was not even in the correct direction. Hyperbole is overstating a truth, not strongly stating something false. And, this guy is a Googler? Who knew? You know your argument is weak when your best responses are "look it up in a dictionary," and "you work for the same company hur hur."
- manarth 13y agoMy point about hyperbole was that it's "an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally". To be fair, I hadn't come across Brett's work before…but anyone writing with degree of detail about HTTP headers, referencing SPACEJUMP and PubSubHubbub has probably used curl -I and may well have worked with a REST API. My point is that the argument - we only use GET and POST - only holds water if we're talking about browsers. although I do see how people could interpret the comment differently, and we all know duty calls: http://xkcd.com/386 http://xkcd.com/386