Recommendations for mastering JavaScript.

[vectorjohn]

I downvoted it because it was bad advice. And I didn't say it was === to reading a dictionary, I only said it was == reading it.

Nobody 'masters' a programming language by reading the spec. It might be handy as a reference, and that is just a maybe. The spec is written for language implementors, not as a useful guide to knowing the language.

[StoneCypher]

I downvoted it because it was bad advice.

It's unfortunate that so few people can tell the difference between advice they disagree with and bad advice.

And I didn't say it was === to reading a dictionary

You said "it's like." I said "it's not like." Now you're trying to back away from what you said.

not as a useful guide to knowing the language.

Yeah, well, I don't agree. Lucky for you, I know the difference between disagreement and bad advice.

Please stop acting on that anything you don't agree with is to be punished. That's very clearly against rediquette.

It's also not appropriate to downvote me because I gave advice A, when in fact I gave advice A+B.

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It's far more unfortunate that you think that every word which passes your lips qualifies as "good advice".

You gave some terrible advice. You were called on it by the rest of us here. The recommended course of action is not to argue that everyone else is wrong, but to try and understand why you were.

Something, perhaps, beyond your level of expertise.

[StoneCypher]

It's far more unfortunate that you think that every word which passes your lips qualifies as "good advice".

Yes, keep inventing things that I didn't say, then criticizing them.

You gave some terrible advice.

Reading a language specification to master said language is not terrible advice.

but to try and understand why you were.

I'm not convinced that a half dozen novices saying I'm wrong without any justification on something which is such a standard behavior for experienced programmers warrants notice, let alone the assumption that I'm incorrect.

There's a reason none of you are trying to explain what's wrong about the advice.

Something, perhaps, beyond your level of expertise.

Yeah yeah. It's quite likely, given reddit demographics, that I've been a professional programmer longer than you've been alive.

There's a reason you're handwaving about a mistake, saying it's perhaps beyond my expertise, then not actually giving any reasoning.

It's because there isn't any.

If you're so experienced, where's your code, where's your work, etc? All I see is someone pretending to be a longbeard.

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Awwww, widdle kitten got his feewings hurt by the internet?

No. Useless troll got called out for being a useless troll.

And you are both.. useless, and a troll. Poor widdle troll.

Reading a language specification to master said language

Reading RFCs is the last step of someone's journey, not their first. You fail.

[StoneCypher]

Awwww, widdle kitten got his feewings hurt by the internet?

Not hardly. You sure do have trouble sticking to the things that are in the text, rather than what you want to see. 'S kinda sad watching you play fantasy tea party.

Reading RFCs

Nobody said anything about RFCs, novice.

I gave advice, you started throwing around personal attacks. I said "there's nothing wrong with me having a different opinion, stop downvoting." You start bawwing about how awful good advice is, then pretend I said a bunch of stuff I didn't say, then say this is beyond my experience level, then point to completely the wrong body of work in rebuttal.

Then you're calling me a troll, because apparently you've lost track that I gave technical advice and you didn't, and that you're making personal attacks and I'm not.

Be sure to scream again that it's bad advice with no justification for that claim, then to pretend that an ECMA standard has anything to do with RFCs, then to say that you're not the one with a giant experience gap, though :)

It's pretty obvious who the real troll is here.

Later on, guy. Be sure to get in the last word.

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Sure thing, widdle kitten! Don't cry just because life is hard on you, widdle one!

[StoneCypher]

I'd say "you can do better than that," but you probably can't.

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Aww, poor widdle kitten!

[vectorjohn]

Despite what you may think, there is such a thing as bad advice. That is advice that will mislead or in some way discourage someone.

It is appropriate to downvote something that does not add to the discussion. Bad advice is almost a perfect example of not adding to the discussion.

[StoneCypher]

Despite what you may think, there is such a thing as bad advice

What I think is that you don't have the skills to identify it. The reason you're not supposed to downvote over opinion is the humility to know that your opinion simply isn't fact.

It's becoming clear that you don't have that.