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Okay, I'll be nice.

You're using the community guidelines as a shield to hide behind while you de-emphasize the fact that you were completely wrong and feigning to compensate for your total lack of experience in the relevant subject.

Stop using the community guidelines a shield. Own up to the fact that you were more than merely ignorant, you were aggressively promulgating and infecting others with falsehoods borne from your ignorance which is a kind of behavior I can't even begin to fathom the reasons for.

This is where it starts. This is how the incorrect campfire knowledge starts. CompSci and software engineering are rife with this plague and you are subject zero. CompSci is notorious for being, get this, unscientific because of the amount of false folk knowledge that gets bandied about.

Our lack of rigor, from the point of a view of an experimentalist and also an engineer, is dishonorable and unnecessary.

Your behavior shames all professional programmers.

So, lesson learned. I'll honey up my criticisms. I'll find ways to communicate that are pleasant and convincing.

That doesn't change that you'll never be free of my contempt, even if I'm being nice.

Keep the beer and coffee, you want to do me a favor? Don't ever do that again.



You are confusing me with someone else. I wasn't the one who made the original claim.


Fair, but don't defend the propagation of things like that.


I promise I won't.

You seem to be a very talented writer. Have you ever considered using your powers for good instead of for evil?

:)


Only rarely:

http://blog.bitemyapp.com/

http://bitemyapp.tumblr.com/

I don't generally find myself with anything profoundly useful (to others) to say outside of any specific context.

If you have a topic/post suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

Thank you for the compliment, you're a very patient man.


Good read, gentlemen.




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