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Re:Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE... by jasonlotito on Friday March 04, 2016 @10:21AM (#11224276)
I think Andrey took it not as "he is a marketing manager for JetBrains, so of course there is a bias", but rather: "he is just a marketing manager, and not a developer, so what does he know?" And with that line of thinking, the follow up question makes perfect sense. He's not just a marketing manager.
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Re:Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE... by oldmanjay on Friday March 04, 2016 @11:21AM (#11224765)
He's a marketing manager who responds with an argumentative tone to someone pointing out he is a marketing manager. There's a thing you don't see every day.
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Re:Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE... by jasonlotito on Friday March 04, 2016 @11:59AM (#11225037)
Argumentative tone? I didn't read that. Couple that with the fact that he might not be a native English speaker, I think it's a bit much to imply a tone.
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Re:Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE... by oldmanjay on Friday March 04, 2016 @02:01PM (#11226033)
An argument against the article was specifically solicited, even though it was orthogonal to the OP's point. That's not an implication, it's a statement. I'm not sure how else to read such a thing, frankly, native speaker or otherwise.

Edit: and not that I'm telling the jetbrains folks how to do their job, but a marketing manager who has communication difficulties in a given language generally isn't given the responsibility to make public company statements in that language.

Basically your objections aren't holding much water.

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Re:Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE... by jasonlotito on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @08:08PM (#11294038)
Considering your other comments, I see why you would think ill intent of others.
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Re:Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE... by cwyers on Friday March 04, 2016 @11:14AM (#11224690)
When there's two possible ways to read something, and one of them makes all kinds of sense and one of them doesn't, I think parsimony suggests we should believe the one that makes sense.
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Re:Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE... by jasonlotito on Friday March 04, 2016 @12:05PM (#11225088)
Sure, but that assumes you read it two possible ways.

And my interpretation makes perfect sense, especially if you consider the individual in question might not be a native English speaker. Seriously, I think people complaining about this are reading far too much into this. Chill.

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