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Re:Everything's Blub All Over Again by xlnt on Monday March 24, 2008 @05:14PM (#145015)
I agree that yelling at children doesn't help. But I'm wondering if you would debate with a child, or try to persuade him with good ideas, or would use some other sort of approach that isn't yelling or persuading?
Re:Everything's Blub All Over Again by raganwald on Monday March 24, 2008 @05:37PM (#145034)
Interesting question, but let's take it somewhere else: Are we describing programmers as children, idiots, and/or trolls? I hope not...
Re:Everything's Blub All Over Again by xlnt on Monday March 24, 2008 @05:41PM (#145037)
I didn't mean to be, although certainly a programmer could be any of those.