Translating James McGovern
I think the best way to address James McGovern's latest post is to translate it. So, let's hone in. He says:
Lot of folks have chimed in on a previous posting on Ruby and responded with passion and supplied their own perspectives but zero facts.
Translation: "Lots of people chimed in with words I didn't understand. Many of them brought up actual examples, and that's, like, so totally unfair"
Still another perspective is that I am a thought follower and defer my entire thought process to the wisdom provided by large consulting firms. Wrong! I simply acknowledged that this is a behavior whether right or wrong hapens in corporate America.
Translation: "I'm a thought leader, damnit. Do you see anyone else following me? And when I said that big consulting firms were all that mattered, people twisted my words by taking what I said literally. Fargin Bastages..."
I still cannot stop laughing about the postings regarding me being too enterprise. These are from folks who have obviously never met me or even engaged in an open conversation. I suspect their perspectives would change if they did so...
Translation: "How dare people take my words at their literal meaning!"
He then presents the world's most constricted set of rules defining what he actually meant to say - until tomorrow, after yet another person presents him with one of those fact things - something he's clearly never understood.
The sky is a different color where McGovern works.


Comments
take the $500
[Isaac Gouy] March 26, 2006 11:02:00.828
the best way to address James McGovern's latest post
The best way to address James McGovern's latest post is to provide the specific information he requested about Ruby usage, and take the $500 he has offered for charity.
'If, in responding to an argument, I deliberately distort it so as to weaken it, then I commit the "straw-man fallacy." ... The commission of the fallacy is a dishonest mistake because it is the deliberate distortion of another's argument.' p112 Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking.
[Daniel Berger] March 26, 2006 12:00:41.490
The guy's a nut. Stop feeding the trolls please.