Re:Google dealt setback in age bias case by judge interested...
by DannyBee on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:52PM
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"Straw man argument. Nobody stated this."
This is pretty much exactly his attitude, even if he did not explicitly add the other 3 words.
"in wide use at a company and hence your previous efforts have in fact been productive and useful for them."
Except that assumes it's literally true. It's not, as a downvoted person said :)
It also assumes that him working on it would be useful or productive relative to doing something else. That is also probably a negative.
Straw man argument. Nobody stated this.
There's also a difference between thinking that your stuff is super important in isolation versus simply pointing out it's in wide use at a company and hence your previous efforts have in fact been productive and useful for them.