Malware on My Android Phone

Re:Malware on My Android Phone by ladyanita22 on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:04PM (#25732989)

You speak like if you were any kind of authority.

Nowadays anybody can be an Android developer, India is full of teenagers doing it.

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by maxmalysh on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:24PM (#25733354)

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by ladyanita22 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:14PM (#25735826)

TL;DR

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by Qub3d on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:56PM (#25736739)

The part of pg's comments that relates to your comments is this part:

"Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem—and a particularly useless sort, because good ideas often come from outsiders. The question is whether the author is correct or not. If his lack of authority caused him to make mistakes, point those out. And if it didn't, it's not a problem."

But in general, Paul Graham isn't saying anything that is novel to this site's comment guidelines:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by craftinator on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:50AM (#25747599)

"Don't be a dick, because plenty of people are smarter than you, and even people who are not smarter than you can come up with really good ideas and perspectives."

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by rxhernandez on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:22PM (#25734766)

I was a teenager doing Android Development in 2010. What difference does age make in this discussion?

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by ladyanita22 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:13PM (#25735816)

What I mean is that it's not a valid argument to establish the authority of the speaker.

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by the_jeremy on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:43PM (#25736442)

Why isn't it? Teenagers in India can have authority on a subject and more experience in certain areas than I do.

I'm not taking their post completely on faith. It matches up with my previous experiences, including the article we're currently talking about and related articles I've read.

Is there a specific issue you have with their point, or did you just want to point out that they're not special for making apps?

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