Terry: even worse if the originator of that method was a generation (or 2) older and had passed away. I can't even count the number of times I've inherited old code that makes no sense but am afraid to touch the particularly goopy parts for fear of breaking something.
We use the "fix #123" "fixes #234" "see #456" "re 567" notation extensively, internally. It makes trac much nicer to work with, and svn's event hooks are just awesome.
Please excuse any typographical errors I might make during this post, as I'm laughing almost too hard to contain myself at your obviously funny joke, and you seem to be the type of person who would pounce due to a typo.
With that out of the way, what are you trying to accomplish here? I found Elizabeth's anecdotes an interesting read and a nice reminder that even though people like you, Jamie, are probably intellectually superior to anyone who might come after you, the harsh reality is that those people will not always have someone of such genius to look up to to solve their woeful problems.
Chris, Elizabeth and I (along with the other 22 authors) are providing this content for free. We all lead extremely busy lives, and we normally get paid for writing, so we're doing this to help the community and because we think it's interesting.
If you're already enlightened to everything that can possible be shred with you by people who are so obviously below you, then by all means, bid farewell to your mother, go back downstairs, and visit OTHER sites, ignoring us, but at the very least stop the whining; it just makes you sound like much more of an idiot than you could possibly be.
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(for the record, this post is my personal opinion blah blah blah)
Another type of logical fallacy that is rampant in online discussion is ignorance of causality.
Take the following statements:
- We have flowers in our garden. In the summer time the flowers bloom. In the winter, they don't. Therefore, blooming flowers make the sun shine and the temperature rise. It only makes sense.
Obviously, we know this to be false, but without an understanding of the cause/effect, in this scenario (ie, if you didn't know that the sun causes the flowers to bloom, and not that blooming flowers cause the sun to shine), the above is plausible.
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