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A better response:

stop linking to John Cook.

Every John Cook blog entry I have ever read turns out, upon inspection, to be an almost-content free restatement of an accepted consensus -- motherhood statements at best.

Whereas Jeff Atwood at least gives credit to the books he reads and summarises, Cook merely regurgitates unsourced factoids and leavens with a few unimpressive anecdotes.



And yet, I never cease to be amazed at how many people need to be reminded of many of these accepted truisms.


Which can be more effectively done by referring people to the original sources rather than rehashing some folk lore.




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