Sins of a Modern Objective C Developer Community

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5 pointsjbrennan2 comments

>Again, this does nothing but inflame when instead the intent should be to inform.

Yada yada yada -- one of many similar paragraphs.

Is this post about problems with the suggestions in Furrow's article, or about how prudish the author is and how carefully one must word his posts to get his approval?

I, for one, could do with less preaching and more to the point critique.

I don't feel like any of my suggestions revolved around "careful wording", but instead were about how using language which gave the vibe of "Just do it", without reasoning, doesn't get me as far as it could. I even put that in its own paragraph:

>We developers are notoriously bad at socializing and I believe it’s one of the things severely keeping our craft much farther behind than it ought to be. We’re wonderfully intelligent people, but we’re nearly incapable of having open discussions to improve our craft. The idea of actual, constructive criticism seems farfetched to most developers, and it’s so much easier to shit on somebody else’s work.

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