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"Young man, do not take that flippant tone with me (raps ruler on desk). Those novice developers failed to RTFM."

I suppose that the github developers all failed to RTFM, too, right? So either they're all n00bs, or we can safely assume that everyone makes mistakes when the framework makes mistakes easy to make.

(Also, I suspect that you're joking about the "young man" thing, but it's probably worth pointing out that I've been coding for a long time. I may even be older than you. But I still make mistakes, and I definitely appreciate it when my frameworks make the Right Way the Only Way. It's not just about novices.)



Of course I was joking about the young man thing. As I suspected you were with the “Gee” thing. It’s not a formal debate, a little “local” colour makes comments like this more enjoyable to read.




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