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OFF TOPIC RANT Just have to register my frustration with the cliched "[x] considered harmful" headline in the IT world. It devalues the proposition instead of

by blowski 12y ago

OFF TOPIC RANT Just have to register my frustration with the cliched "[x] considered harmful" headline in the IT world. It devalues the proposition instead of lending it authority. EDIT: "Betteridge's law of headlines" also applies here (Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.) Since it's an opinion piece, state your opinion in the headline, and stick with it. The question mark suggests even the author's not sure he agrees with the premise, which makes me think the article is not worth reading.

jacques_chester 12y ago
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- blowski 12y ago
  I enjoyed that greatly! Thank you for the link.
julie1 12y ago
If you don't rant how do you learn from your mistakes? It makes you reconsider what went wrong like The Mythical Man's Month (tools considered harmful aka silver bullets) by F Brooks the project manager that nearly killed IBM and OS360 is such an example. Coding is about creativity and innovation. Not about respecting the authority. It is a hard mix of conservatism (standing on the giants' shoulders) and like the other giants ... to rant. At one point the best developers new ideas are rants ex robe pike vs Unix (plan9, Go) (all his rants against unix (see cat) are a very good source of knowledge for unix devs) And rants are always instructive when done by great person. * http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ (I learned a lot with http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ ) * computer for cynics on youtube (a rant against computer industry in general) “It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes.” — Keith Braithwaite
- blowski 12y ago
  I meant that my comment was an off-topic rant. I have no problem with the article itself (I didn't even read it), nor the right of anybody to rant about anything. It's the cliched headline on which I was commenting.

by blowski 12y ago

jacques_chester 12y ago

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blowski 12y ago
I enjoyed that greatly! Thank you for the link.

julie1 12y ago

If you don't rant how do you learn from your mistakes? It makes you reconsider what went wrong like The Mythical Man's Month (tools considered harmful aka silver bullets) by F Brooks the project manager that nearly killed IBM and OS360 is such an example. Coding is about creativity and innovation. Not about respecting the authority. It is a hard mix of conservatism (standing on the giants' shoulders) and like the other giants ... to rant. At one point the best developers new ideas are rants ex robe pike vs Unix (plan9, Go) (all his rants against unix (see cat) are a very good source of knowledge for unix devs) And rants are always instructive when done by great person. * http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ (I learned a lot with http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ ) * computer for cynics on youtube (a rant against computer industry in general) “It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes.” — Keith Braithwaite

blowski 12y ago
I meant that my comment was an off-topic rant. I have no problem with the article itself (I didn't even read it), nor the right of anybody to rant about anything. It's the cliched headline on which I was commenting.