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empty  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stop Acting So Surprised: How Microaggressions Enforce Stereotypes in Tech

I've worked with dogmatists and I ignored their advice for a long time because I didn't see the value of it in the code they produced. Then I read the original source material of their dogma, saw that it was good, and saw how wrongly they were applying it. Then I became a better programmer and quit.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: Make sure I understand an idea before I dismiss it because someone I don't like misunderstands the idea themselves. This is a variant of strawman fallacy.