Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:61776 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34673 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2012 15:50:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jul 2012 15:50:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 64.22.89.133 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.22.89.133 oxmail.registrar-servers.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [64.22.89.133] ([64.22.89.133:58897] helo=oxmail.registrar-servers.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E8/0A-19281-7D510105 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:50:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.200] (5ad32874.bb.sky.com [90.211.40.116]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8FAFCC30007; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:50:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <501015B9.6050704@ajf.me> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:50:17 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ferenc Kovacs CC: Alex Aulbach , Sherif Ramadan , internals@lists.php.net References: <500EDCC7.1020402@ajf.me> <500EE3B9.8010902@ajf.me> <500EEA76.1030407@ajf.me> <5010138D.5050804@ajf.me> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080503080400060400010505" Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Generators in PHP From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrew Faulds) --------------080503080400060400010505 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 25/07/12 16:47, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > He linked to the Wikipedia "Appeal to authority" article because > it's a common logical fallacy. Experience alone does not make you > any more right than somebody else, and in the same way, someone > without it is not "less right". > > Also, I have 16 years of experience at life, so obviously I'm an > expert at it, right? > > I don't see how it means anything. > > > I'm not arguing that experience doesn't help understanding the issues > related to that experience, what I'm saying is that if someone has > more experience, and he/she is right about his/her statement, then > he/she should have reasons and facts to support his/her opinion and > shouldn't use the 'I have more experience, therefore I'm right' reasoning. > > ps: he/she for the honor of > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg58114.html > > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu Oh yes, of course. Experience can be helpful. But you must support things with facts, as you said. However I don't think simply having a lot of experience is always meaningful. It's not really how much, more *what* experience you have that I think really matters here. -- Andrew Faulds http://ajf.me/ --------------080503080400060400010505--