Are you seriously suggesting that as long as anyone has been working on something for years, that we should accept what he says without looking at it in a critical way? The enlightenment must have passed you by.
No, what he's saying is that if you're inexperienced and completely uninvolved in a field, you should think critically about what an experienced insider has to say, and reconsider snarky flippant dismissals.
One thing that annoys me about software culture in general is how, by virtue of being a programmer, people are also political scientists, economists, biologists, chemists, astronomers, manufacturing experts, doctors, nutritionists, sociologists, anthropologists, and the grand poobah of dismissing speech because of the way it's phrased.
There's a saying, "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement".
It's just possible that a twenty something may not have spent as much time making bad judgements as a forty something. At forty you will look at your twenty year old self and wonder how you could have been such an idiot even though at that time you would have thought all the forty somethings were idiots.
It happens in parent-child relationships all the time. Every teenager thinks he's smarter than his parents. The parents have experience on their side. Wait till the teenager becomes a parent. Now that's enlightenment.
Qualitative difference between expert with years of experience and twentysomethings lacking any experience justifies it not working both ways.
Are you seriously suggesting that as long as anyone has been working on something for years, that we should accept what he says without looking at it in a critical way? The enlightenment must have passed you by.
No, what he's saying is that if you're inexperienced and completely uninvolved in a field, you should think critically about what an experienced insider has to say, and reconsider snarky flippant dismissals.
One thing that annoys me about software culture in general is how, by virtue of being a programmer, people are also political scientists, economists, biologists, chemists, astronomers, manufacturing experts, doctors, nutritionists, sociologists, anthropologists, and the grand poobah of dismissing speech because of the way it's phrased.
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There's a saying, "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement".
It's just possible that a twenty something may not have spent as much time making bad judgements as a forty something. At forty you will look at your twenty year old self and wonder how you could have been such an idiot even though at that time you would have thought all the forty somethings were idiots.
It happens in parent-child relationships all the time. Every teenager thinks he's smarter than his parents. The parents have experience on their side. Wait till the teenager becomes a parent. Now that's enlightenment.
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