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		xlnt on March 24, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everything's Blub All Over Again I agree that yelling at children doesn't help. But I'm wondering if you would debate with a child, or try to persuade him with good ideas, or would use some other sort of approach that isn't yelling or persuading?

raganwald on March 24, 2008 [–]

Interesting question, but let's take it somewhere else: Are we describing programmers as children, idiots, and/or trolls? I hope not...

xlnt on March 24, 2008 | [–]

I didn't mean to be, although certainly a programmer could be any of those.

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