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Re:Nix as OS X Package Manager by adekok on Thursday May 26, 2016 @04:16PM (#11781155)
> This is called dogma,

Then you don't know what the word "dogma" means.

What I said was "In my experience." i.e. practice learned over time.

This cannot be interpreted by any reasonable person as "blobs are bad, just 'cause."

That kind of straw man argument leads me to conclude that similar issues are being your inability to understand the use of reproducability.

Re:Nix as OS X Package Manager by geocar on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:25AM (#11785028)
Dogma: a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.[1]

You aren't offering any evidence or justification besides the statement. I might as well say, "in my experience, ``reproducability (sic) is a waste of time''" -- what's the point of that?

Instead, I'm providing concrete examples of why it's a waste of time, and rather than anyone arguing the contrary, they're doing exactly what you're doing: Repeating that there's some point of "reproducability" (sic). There isn't, you're wrong. End of.

But whatever, my background isn't physics, so what could I possibly know? Running engineering teams for the last two decades that have to develop and deal with high volume, high uptime application servers only means my systems have to work and make money, not that they be "reproducable" (sic).

[1]: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dogma