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LnxPrgr3 on May 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nerds, we need to have a talk (2011)

Can't we give honest feedback without going into an epic fit of nerd rage over it?

Besides, the worst fights I see among programmers are over trivial matters of opinion anyway. Ever seen people fight over indentation styles, or the proper way to merge upstream changes into a local git repository, or whether functional or object-oriented programming is the One True Way?

The anger in these debates isn't teaching anyone a damn thing, except that the color of someone else's bike shed is really, really important to some people.

DanBC on May 2, 2013 [–]

Honest feedback:

1) "I really didn't like the way you did X. It broke Y on my browser, $Browser."

2) "Oh god, why did you chose to do this like this? It's broken and stupid"

I hope that people don't nerd rage after (1). I guess they might, and if they do that's a problem.

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