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Schreiber's EE Arguing On the Internet Flowchart
This amusing, yet oft-seen, flow of conversation on forums was posted by Paul Schreiber some years ago. I took the liberty of archiving it here for posterity.
- Someone without engineering degree/25+ years of experience asks a perfectly reasonable quesion, but requires engineering knowledge to understand the 'proper' answer.
- Engineer gives a simplified answer, which is 'correct' but counters the premise of the asked question.
- Twelve people watching the thread immediately respond "but I do the bad thing, and the bad thing WORKS GREAT FOR ME!"
- Engineer calmly explains the bad thing is relatively bad, there are MUCH BETTER things out there and really, please use the better thing.
- OP is confused: why are there 'better things' when the 'bad thing' is working? Is the 'bad thing' bad? What does 'bad' mean?
- Engineer tries one more time to explain why the 'better thing' really is better.
- Eighteen MORE people chide the engineer, saying you are just paranoid/uptight/wrong/arrogant/whatever, "Hey, OP! Just use the 'bad thing' because IT WORKS FOR ME!"
- GOTO 6
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(Note: I added the last step to ensure the madness never ends...)
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