So, how does having "perfect ears" prevent someone from becoming an "elite violinist"?
It seems to me that while it may not be necessary, it would certainly be helpful. No one thinks it would be sufficient.
By luck I simply have good ears
I don't know, it seems like a musician would greatly benefit from having "perfect ears". Beethoven wasn't great because he was deaf, after all.
Hmmm... How could someone only two-years younger, with the relevant skills and experience you lack, "be better off" than you?
Such a mystery...
real classes
"Uses the more complicated and less powerful approach!" is not a good selling point.
Welcome to 2014. jQuery and similar libraries are not only unnecessary, they actually make writing cross-browser code harder. jQuery, in particular, has never been cross-platform and even now only claims to support an even smaller subset of browsers.
It's not 2006. You need to update your talking points. (I date not ask you to actually learn anything new. Getting you to attach to a new meme is a lofty enough.)
Meh, still beats Python.
people like you would eventually change your minds in some way
People like me? What would I change my mind about?
You're not being very clear.
authors such as, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris.
Two people laughably unqualified to discuss the topic, one second-rate populist philosopher, and one really, really, bad lay-philosopher.
Yeah, well done.
Everyone should be scientifically literate.
Sure, sounds nice. I suspect that you're not, however. Scientific illiteracy runs rampant among atheist groups on the internet. It's rather disturbing. Given your absurd list of recommended authors, it seems reasonable to assume that those are the sort of groups that introduced you to them -- yet you didn't seem to notice.
just happens to be one of the first things we lose when we learn to think for ourselves.
If I assume you're at least of average intelligence, I can not believe that you're actually thinking for yourself. No rational person could read Harris and not only recommend him, but hold him up as an exemplar!
What to do about it? Education, education, education.
Yes. I strongly recommend the formal kind. Autodidacticism clearly isn't working.
You're making the parent's point, you just don't realize it.
(records common and abundant at the time)
You're confused.
The internet and the books of Richard Dawkins are endless sources of arguments.
Didn't you read his post? He said it made him "a better informed atheist with better arguments".
You won't get either Dawkins -- and it's unlikely you get much from the internet either. This thread, for example, should illustrate that second bit well.
Actually now that I think about it more
... you realize that you're doing the submitter's homework?
There's a post above by user Viol8 that gives a pretty plausible explanation.
Wow, no. Where did you come up with that bit of insanity?
Please tell me you're joking.
for any new development it is literally impossible to recommend C over C++.
Really? Let's find out:
For your next project, I strongly recommend that you implement it in C instead of C++.
Sorry, kid. I've got to side with reality on this one...
Wait, so if I tune my stereo to whatever AM talk-radio station it can receive, I'll instantly turn in to a bigot?
(On the ad-hominem bit, you're spot-on. There's nothing like that in the AC's post. The radio thing? WTF?)
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
