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The issue is about IGF lying and you give me a link to an IGF article to prove your point. They have their right to defend themselves, but that doesn't mean that whatever they say in their defense is actually true. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt, and more than one independent report should be taken into consideration when forming an opinion, especially on controversial topics.
I'll reply here because apparently I can't reply to your response. "Because everything that is written on the internet is true". Let's think a little: Intel pulled their ads because they got intimidated by a handful of trolls, yet they didn't returned after it was shown to them that they are supporting misogynists by pulling the ads. Explain to me how a few trolls are more powerful than the media?
How is this HN front page worthy? It's just a case study on only two people that ends up making a generalization about countless others. I could make a pro gamer gate statement for all I care, it would still be irrelevant.
You seem to believe that Intel can be intimidated by internet trolls. It also seems that you don't know nothing about Phil Fish and that almost (if not all) the awards that Fez won were from the investors of Fez themselves. [don't get me wrong, I actually loved Fez] (let the downvotes pour)
You end your comment in a condescending and yet you have the nerve to tell me that I should follow you, when you have only one article posted, ever. Are you for real? And why do you keep telling me to look up Avira? Tell me at least that you are getting paid to promote Avira in every comment you make, because I don't see any other logic to speak about it when it wasn't the freaking subject of my rant.
Anyway, going to back to my issues, maybe you'll understand this time. Your article has not a single useful thing in it, it just regurgitates random facts. AngularJS might be the best thing since sliced bread, but you do a poor job at explaining why. Does it matter that it has more commits, forks and stars on github than alternative frameworks? No. Does it matter that is backed up by Google? No. But please explain why are these things relevant in any shape or form. It seems to me that you just went with the winner of a beauty pageant.
You didn't added certain links, you added just one link, and it was buried in a mountain of crap. It would have been nice if you expanded on the content from that link. You say that this is a tech post, but I don't see no tech in it (buzzwords =/= tech).
"We rewrote it". Yes, well argued, I see no flaw with that statement (/sarcasm). You could have said that you used X feature in Y manner to improve Z and thus replace the god old W way of doing things. But why bother? You were too busy counting github commits and whatnot.
Do you understand where I'm going with this? Or are you gonna reply with yet another "look up Avira" and "here's another argument from authority to prove me right" comment?
In the end, I think I'm just talking to a wall here, so I'll just leave you with a Pauli inspired statement: "you're article is not even wrong" (you'll get bonus points from me if you understand this one).
I said it's an AngularJS commercial, not an Avira commercial. But let me get the Avira part out of the way first: the article is at most an anti-commercial for Avira. You're saying that this web app is the flagship product for Avira. Do you know what a "flagship product" means? Do I really have to explain to you why a web app as a flagship product is not a good commercial for a security oriented company? But thank you for the link, go with the anti-commercial even further.
And now for the useless AngularJS commercial part. Here are the fallacies:
- You argue for choosing AngularJS using statistics from github, now that's an "Argumentum ad populum". You chose AngularJS just to jump on the hype-train, because you don't give any other reasons beside "look, so many others are using it, it must be good".
- You don't explain how to achieve the results. You're just saying: "here are the results, you must believe me because I work at a company and write on blogs". This is called "Argument from authority". You could have crafted some toy examples to explain how is the debugging easier, or how does it help with the testability, but no such things from you.
[there are more, but these will suffice]
And another thing about your article: you should explain some of the buzzwords you use, not everyone knows them. For example: what does "velocity score" means and/or implies? I can't get anything about it from google, and that says a lot about it.
In the end, you have a nice skeleton for an article, but is not fleshed at all. Nice color, pretty, yet absolutely worthless, graphs and no content whatsoever. I hope you don't code as you write.
[edit: formating]
"We’ve just rolled out a major rewrite of the Online Essentials (Avira’s flagship product) in AngularJS." "The whole idea of this web app ..."
No more antivirus solutions from Avira? It's flagship product is a web app?
The rest of the article is just a useless commercial for AngularJS, filled with buzzwords and fallacies.