Timeline for Do some programmers know some secrets that we others don't?
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| Mar 27, 2014 at 14:30 | comment | added | RobD | The more experience I get and the more I learn the more I realise how much I don't know and the more humble I become. I am now completely certain that I cannot write Ehlo Wordl correctly | |
| Jun 9, 2011 at 22:37 | comment | added | Peter Rowell | @Kevin: I'm not saying that a person with more (real) experience isn't more likely to be right, but that's simply a probability. If we were dealing with a soft science I might be more ready to concede the point, but we are dealing with one of the harder Hard Sciences there is. That means I don't want an opinion or a "trust me," I want cold, hard, provable facts. Many years ago I found a fairly serious bug in Sun's C compiler. When I tried to report it, a Sun "expert" tried to blow me off with, "That kind of bug could never get through our QA." I told him, "Talk to the error message." | |
| Jun 9, 2011 at 20:35 | comment | added | Kevin Vermeer | Arguments from an individual's own authority (claiming it for themselves) are, as you said, usually hollow. However, arguments from the authority of an individual with expertise in the subject are likely to be valid. They're not logically provable, which is why they're disparaged in your links, but it's certainly respectable. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 17:20 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Andreas | ||
| Jun 6, 2011 at 11:01 | comment | added | edA-qa mort-ora-y | Don't forget the StackExchange equivalent Proof By Reputation Score | |
| Jun 5, 2011 at 23:34 | history | answered | Peter Rowell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |