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Re:The True Cost of Rewrites by kbenson on Saturday December 15, 2018 @11:43AM (#18689076)
> I like Spolsky's articles but I hate the dogmatic culture a writer like him creates.

But without creating that dogmatic culture, would his writing have become popular enough to be disseminated to a wide audience?

Perhaps we should think of it as a corollary to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

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Re:The True Cost of Rewrites by ryanackley on Monday December 17, 2018 @09:13AM (#18698998)
> without creating that dogmatic culture, would his writing have become popular enough to be disseminated to a wide audience

Personally, I think you have the cause and effect switched around. Would his opinions be considered dogmatic if he weren't so popular?

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