On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 12:16:26 UTC, Jacob wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 19:35:33 UTC, Ice Cream Overload
wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 16:56:27 UTC, Jacob wrote:
I've noticed that you seem to be quite arrogant. Usually it
is a result of ignorance. Your statement basically proves
that.
Maybe you should take a break from programming for a while
and work on your attitude?
While you have no proof of this, If you do a little soul
searching you'll find that the world doesn't revolve around
you. Put down your toys and get out of the sandbox and you
might learn something!
Dude you are kind of being a jerk. He's just arguing against,
rather passionately, a design decision he thinks is poor. It
values no one if individuals remain quiet and conform.
Certainly not the leadership. What you see as arrogance is
really just passion.
Passion or not,
"If you are wondering why I'm inflammatory, here you go. You
are pulling me the old prove a negative trick. You have good
evidence that DIP25 is good design ? Good, because I have none.
And that's my proof. As long as I have no evidence that DIP25
is good, DIP25 is bad."
That statement shows a lot of arrogance.
It he not really just saying "I have no clue if X is true, but
since I don't know, I'll just assume it's false and assume you
are wrong.".
That's not very logical. Why wouldn't he just as well assume X
is true?
The context is that all additions have an intrinsic cost because
they increase complexity and restrict future design choices,
therefore the onus is on any change/addition to justify its value
in order to overcome that cost.
I think you are completely misreading the situation, or trolling.
This is just
