http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ThemAndUs Posts tagged with 'ThemAndUs' at MetaFilter. Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:07:14 -0800 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:07:14 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/27453/Why%2DI%2DHate%2DAdvocacy <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/advocacy.html">Why I Hate Advocacy.</a> Baseball, politics, and programming languages? Mark Jason-Dominus created a classic article that is really about the general human tendancy towards flawed dialogue and the pitfalls surrounding evangelism, even though it's specifically directed towards the perl programming community. Indeed, as <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/23899">in the past</a>, some may see the "spectre of Metafilter itself" in Mark's words. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.27453 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:07:14 -0800 advocacy civil dialogue discussion Other rhetoric society ThemAndUs weston