> What I have to have scientific papers for every fucking opinion I have?
No, but if you’re going to say things like “increase safety by roughly 2x” then if you can’t even identify the unit then you are misleading people.
It’s absolutely fine to have an opinion. It’s not fine to make numbers up.
> I'm confident my "anecdotal" metrics with I prefaced with "roughly" are "roughly" ballpark trueish.
Okay, so if it’s 1.5×, 2.0×, or 2.5×… again, what metric? What unit are we dealing with?
You’re claiming that it’s “in the ballpark”, but what is “in the ballpark”? The problem is not one of accuracy, the problem is that it’s made up.
> If someone disagrees with me (on this specific topic), it absolutely doesn't mean they are a junior. It means they lack knowledge and experience. This is a fact.
It’s not a fact, it’s ridiculous. You genuinely believe that if somebody disagrees with you, it’s a fact that they lack knowledge and experience? It’s not even remotely possible for somebody to have an informed difference of opinion with you?
>No, but if you’re going to say things like “increase safety by roughly 2x” then if you can’t even identify the unit then you are misleading people.
So when I talk about multipliers I have to have a unit? What is the unit of safety? I can't say something like 2x more safe? I just have to say more safe? What if I want to emphasize that it can DOUBLE safety?
Basically with your insane logic people can't talk about productivity or safety or multipliers at the same time because none of these concepts have units.
Look I told YOU it's anecdotal, EVERYONE can read it. You're no longer "deceived" and no one else is.
>Okay, so if it’s 1.5×, 2.0×, or 2.5×… again, what metric? What unit are we dealing with?
If you don't have the capacity to understand what I'm talking about without me specifying a unit than I'll make one up:
I call it safety units. The amount of errors you catch in production. That's my unit: 1 caught error in prod in a year. For Untyped languages let's say you catch about 20 errors a year. With types that goes down to 10.
>It’s not a fact, it’s ridiculous. You genuinely believe that if somebody disagrees with you, it’s a fact that they lack knowledge and experience? It’s not even remotely possible for somebody to have an informed difference of opinion with you?
What? and you think all opinions are equal and everyone has the freedom to have any opinion they want and no one can be right or wrong because everything is just an opinion? Do all opinions need to be fully respected even though it's insane?
Like my example, if you have the opinion that eating horse shit is healthy, I'm going to make a judgement call that your opinion is WRONG. Lack of Typing is one of these "opinions"
Take a step back and look at what you are saying:
> If someone disagrees with me (on this specific topic), it absolutely doesn't mean they are a junior. It means they lack knowledge and experience. This is a fact.
You think it’s impossible for anybody to have an informed opinion that disagrees with yours. You literally think yours is the only possible valid opinion. If that doesn’t set off big warning bells in your head, you are in dire need of a change in attitude.
This conversation is not productive, let’s end it.
>You think it’s impossible for anybody to have an informed opinion that disagrees with yours. You literally think yours is the only possible valid opinion. If that doesn’t set off big warning bells in your head, you are in dire need of a change in attitude.
I mean do you think we should have a fair and balanced discussion about the merits of child molestation and rape? We should respect other people's opinion and not tell them they are wrong if there opinion differs? That's what I think of your opinion. I think your opinion is utterly wrong, and I do think my opinion is the valid opinion.
Now that doesn't mean I disrespect your opinion. That doesn't mean your not allowed to have a different opinion. It just means I tell you straight up, you're wrong and you lack experience. You're free to disagree with that and tell me the exact same thing. I'm just blunt, and I welcome you to be just as blunt to me. Which you have.
The thing I don't like about you is that you turned it into discussion about opinions and the nature of holding opinions. Dude. Just talk about the topic. If you think I'm wrong. Tell me straight up. Talk about why I'm wrong. Don't talk about my character and in what manner I should formulate opinions and what I think are facts.
>This conversation is not productive, let’s end it.
I agree let's end it. But let's be utterly clear. YOU chose to end it with your actions by shifting the conversation into saying stuff like "you literally think yours is the only possible opinion." Bro. All you need to do is state why you think my opinion is garbage and prove it wrong. That's the direction of the conversation, you ended it by shifting it to a debate on my character.