This comes off a little aggressive to me. People should be able to provide opinions and anecdotes on HN without the constant "citation needed" for everything. We all know everything isn't fully backed by 4 studies that will be presented here and now. Just say you disagree and offer why. It will probably be an anecdote too.
Re:Leveling up as a Junior Engineer
by enraged_camel on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:50PM
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On the other hand, if everyone used "anecdata" to support their arguments, we would never get anywhere.
If you want to make qualitative arguments, make qualitative arguments. What I absolutely can't stand is lame attempts to lend weight in such arguments using completely unverifiable and most likely non-representative numbers.
But the guy was just giving his opinion...
Re:Leveling up as a Junior Engineer
by plinkplonk on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:15PM
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fwiw I know 6 'water walkers' and none of them have github accounts.
Not saying this is universally true. Just another anecdotal sample.
Many, sure. But the OP's comment was "Of the 10 or so water walkers I've worked with, 0 have github accounts."
Surely people understand how asinine it is to believe that a sample size of 10 of OP's "water walkers" is a representative sample?