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Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

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Re: Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

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That's such a good quote. I can't find it anywhere, so I'll attribute it to you.

I can't find it, but believe Joe Armstrong said something along those lines (but I think his number was ten).

Yeah, I can't find it either, but I'm fairly sure it was him.

Re: Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

#112

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Avoiding questions just because it depends on context might be a valuable way to signal to other people that you're careful and considerate, and that definitely has value. But quizzes like this are explicitly designed to be contextless. You're supposed to answer with your gut feeling, the first step in the random walk. Someone who actually depends heavily on context and doesn't have a strong preference either way wil…

The analysis you quote smells of vapid pop psychology. What empirical evidence exists for supposing that the result is reliably objective, let alone relevant?

It should smell more like philosophy class 101 to you. "Either X or not X. If X, either Y or not Y."

I can point you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table if you need empirical evidence that people sometimes actually think claims through sometimes for a few minutes. Otherwise I'm not sure what you're asking for.

Re: Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

#113

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The analysis you quote smells of vapid pop psychology. What empirical evidence exists for supposing that the result is reliably objective, let alone relevant?

It should smell more like philosophy class 101 to you. "Either X or not X. If X, either Y or not Y." I can point you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table if you need empirical evidence that people sometimes actually think claims through sometimes for a few minutes. Otherwise I'm not sure what you're asking for.

A little later in the class, you'll learn that even completely false hypotheses can be logically consistent.

There is one question here, and you have failed to address it.

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