"""In the meantime, I'm left to wonder "Iain Dooley who?" and be glad that I'm confident enough not to read an opinion-as-fact article and assign it significant credibility."""
Yeah. And I wonder "peteforde", who? Should we only listen to what established figures have to say?
The problem with your attitude is that nowhere you access what the author wrote --you just add critique how he told it: highly conjecturable claims presented with no factual evidence, etc.
The important stuff to ask is, was it a good idea?
(Good ideas don't always come with factual evidence you know). What you think of it? What counter-example can you find.
Basically you just told us: the author is unknown, he doesn't formally prove his idea. Well, DUH!
I read tons of posts with such qualities on the inter-tubes.
That doesn't stop me of getting something out of some of them, and a few of those are pure gold.
"""PS: A good first editing step is to ask "does my opinion-as-fact blog post question the capacity and potential of a professional web designer to understand simple concepts like string interpolation, and could they find this insulting?" before assuming that you've got it all figured out."""
Yeah, as if this is the gist of the post, and the litmus test of a technical idea is if it can hurt the feelings of web designers...
Yeah. And I wonder "peteforde", who? Should we only listen to what established figures have to say?
The problem with your attitude is that nowhere you access what the author wrote --you just add critique how he told it: highly conjecturable claims presented with no factual evidence, etc.
The important stuff to ask is, was it a good idea?
(Good ideas don't always come with factual evidence you know). What you think of it? What counter-example can you find.
Basically you just told us: the author is unknown, he doesn't formally prove his idea. Well, DUH!
I read tons of posts with such qualities on the inter-tubes.
That doesn't stop me of getting something out of some of them, and a few of those are pure gold.
"""PS: A good first editing step is to ask "does my opinion-as-fact blog post question the capacity and potential of a professional web designer to understand simple concepts like string interpolation, and could they find this insulting?" before assuming that you've got it all figured out."""
Yeah, as if this is the gist of the post, and the litmus test of a technical idea is if it can hurt the feelings of web designers...