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“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

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Re: “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

Indeed. I'm over these as well as any of the, "Why I quit X technology" or similarly titled essays. Oh and the "Open letter to Big Corp". You're not that important.

I don't really care why you quit using X. I don't need validation from some blog about what technology to use or not use. I can evaluate X technology on my own, thank you.

Re: “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

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Post by pidg »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #3

Indeed. I'm over these as well as any of the, "Why I quit X technology" or similarly titled essays. Oh and the "Open letter to Big Corp". You're not that important. I don't really care why you quit using X. I don't need validation from some blog about what technology to use or not use. I can evaluate X technology on my own, thank you.

Let me reach out to you about why I left Gmail for FastMail. It's because if you're not paying for the product... you ARE the product.

Yeah.

Re: “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

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Post by kbenson »

jessaustin wrote: post #2

For example, a piece titled "'Considered Harmful' Essays Considered Harmful" would very likely be a case of using the "considered harmful" format to draw attention for its own sake. We will ignore such essays in this commentary. Now I'm just confused.

The expert troll doesn't need to push his work upon this targets, they push it upon themselves and others for him.
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