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Dev Corner - Comments: A Dissenting Opinion

TechSmith Camtasia

Software Engineer, Matt Mercieca, shares his insight about comments and our code. Comments: A Dissenting Opinion". The majority opinion at TechSmith seems to be: comments are evil. Because comments can aid in the maintainability of our code, it is worth examining some of the criticism around them.

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eLearning: Cloud Review and Collaboration with ReviewLink

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Even if you're successful in managing the email strings, if your boss or client asks you to summarize the comments that were approved or rejected, re-reading the emails is likely going to be next to impossible. Each comment has a status--New, Fixed, OK, Not OK, or Archived--so you can easily keep track of your progress.

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eLearning: Cloud Review and Collaboration with ReviewLink

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Even if you're successful in managing the email strings, if your boss or client asks you to summarize the comments that were approved or rejected, re-reading the emails is likely going to be next to impossible. Each comment has a status--New, Fixed, OK, Not OK, or Archived--so you can easily keep track of your progress.

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Bad research

Clark Quinn

Asking opinions, even of experts, isn’t quite as good. They might have valid opinions, but their expertise wasn’t a basis for deciding. For instance, I would comment on submitted articles if they talked learning styles.) BTW, these experiments have been done.) Worse, the folks conducting the study had.

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Losing our collective minds?

Clark Quinn

What this response did was suggest that it’s about opinion. But it’s also the refusal to acknowledge that it’s science, not opinion. Despite some apt questions about the legitimacy, there were counter opinions. One comment brought in neuro-linguistic programming! A waste of time and money. It gets worse.

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Vale Roger Schank

Clark Quinn

The controversy around his presentation caused the guest speaker, Stephen Jay Gould, to comment “you guys are weird”! He was a bit of a contradiction: opinionated and unabashed, but also generous and committed to meaningful change. In each he was his fiery, uncompromising self. Yet, he was also right.

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Do You Need a Villain in a Learning Story?

Experiencing eLearning

In fact, Joe commented in response when I originally wrote this post, Yes, you’re absolutely right that I don’t mean a villain like Dick Dastardly , just that we need some opposition. In the comments, Norman Lamont said , The point of any character in an elearning scenario should be to bring in, to personify, a point of view.

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