censorship 2
- Closing and deleting a question to enforce site rules harms the real person who needed help, not just violates policy.
- People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work.
Yihui Xie
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
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developer tools 2
- A tool's popularity can become a self-reinforcing network effect rather than a sign of technical merit.
- Unit testing's only job should be to flag when something unexpected happens.
social media 2
- Closing and deleting a question to enforce site rules harms the real person who needed help, not just violates policy.
- People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work.