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You people really need to work on your fallacies. Quoting from the Wikipedia definition of Ad hominem: "[I]n which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis
by nateabele 13y ago
You people really need to work on your fallacies. Quoting from the Wikipedia definition of Ad hominem:
"[I]n which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author [...]"
Leon is a really nice, super funny guy, but the fact that no one can maintain the code he writes is highly relevant to the subject of the article. In summary, http://lwtc247.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/get-a-brain-morans.jpg http://lwtc247.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/get-a-brain-moran...
- frou_dh 13y agoHehe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803680
- kyberias 13y agoExactly. I claim that someone's personal opinion on the author's coding skills IS irrelevant. We should concentrate on his _arguments_, not dismiss his arguments based on here-say about what he has or hasn't done. He doesn't argue that HE writes good code, he discusses general topics.