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Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Eth...
The whole article seems to have only the argument of, "Hackers as a whole should think the way I want them to."
This is the new authority to be questioned.
skybrian
on Dec 18, 2016
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I'm not seeing any particular claim to authority here? In a critical essay, it's customary to argue in favor of your own beliefs.
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I feel like nothing about the conclusion follows from the problems. If I say that LA has a public transit issue and my solution is radical libertarianism I should guide my audience between those two points.
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This is the new authority to be questioned.