tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315579333067639553.post1678900449820979409..comments2023-09-16T04:04:05.052-05:00Comments on Mad Engineering: Holy WarsProfessor Preposteroushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833576109973350556noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315579333067639553.post-8587063243275259262010-07-16T13:42:00.546-05:002010-07-16T13:42:00.546-05:00Since I posted this article, I have come across an...Since I posted this article, I have come across an art holy war. I couldn't tell for sure, being unfamiliar with the field, but it seemed to be about as stupid as the comptuer science ones.Professor Preposteroushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07833576109973350556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315579333067639553.post-3870186093623448012009-02-08T04:39:00.000-06:002009-02-08T04:39:00.000-06:00Dude, string theory.There's more string theory dra...Dude, string theory.<BR/>There's more string theory drama among laymorons at Slashdot than there is among actual physicists, but it's easily the equal of the emacs/vi wars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315579333067639553.post-86121161751685257822009-02-06T12:51:00.000-06:002009-02-06T12:51:00.000-06:00Chemistry and Physics also have quite a lot of cer...Chemistry and Physics also have quite a lot of certainty where some disputes are just erroneous, but the closest I've ever seen to a holy war in either is the quantum physics slapfight of the 1920's.<BR/><BR/>Quantum physicists won that one, last I checked.<BR/><BR/>And as for psychology, the most qualified psychologist I know predicts that psychology will eventually be superseded by neurology, with all useful discoveries "folded in."Professor Preposteroushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07833576109973350556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315579333067639553.post-2423147451836095762009-02-06T02:13:00.000-06:002009-02-06T02:13:00.000-06:00The problem with a field like computer science is ...The problem with a field like computer science is that it's possible to say someone is wrong, unambiguously and without a doubt, so disagreement on things of substance rarely happens. And since people like to disagree, it's nice to find a relatively trivial thing to disagree on once in a while.<BR/><BR/>That said, I don't think Windows vs. any other operating system or GUI vs. CLI is really that big a controversy. On the one hand you have dumb people who are wrong, and on the other you have Unix users.<BR/><BR/>(Though dadaism could be seen as a holy war among artists. The fact that psychologists don't really have them is more a reflection on the fact that nearly all of psychology is pseudo-scientific.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com