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Re:PostgREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing Postgre... by sidlls on Sunday March 26, 2017 @01:30PM (#13961881)
The "blub paradox" argument isn't a very good argument. It's effectively a gradeschool style ad hominem wrapped in fancier clothing.

Also, I don't think his criticism is of the "blub" mold anyhow. It seems to me more like it's criticism of the particular codebase's documentation, although it does seem to stretch into a hasty generalization about "all Haskell".

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Re:PostgREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing Postgre... by dtech on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:52PM (#13971663)
I don't agree that blub is an ad-hominem,or even a fallacy.

Blub basically says "you need to be proficient in X before you can see value in X, this if you are not proficient in X you won't see it's value". You can disagree with the statement, but there's no logical fallacy there.

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