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I think altering the tone with which you use to deliver your message will have a beneficial effect in reaching people.

For example, I am not going to read this because it sounds really pretentious, and you are replying to everyone here to argue trivial things. If you don't have a complex, you don't need to bother with this.

Also, because it ends with this:

>As for the resume decoration, I would say that if you've covered the beginner level and are venturing into the intermediate stages it is justifiable to put it on your resume. Once you find yourself developing your desired functions rather than copying and pasting them, you can then claim to know JavaScript, until then, please don't advertise it.

Really?



Are you skeptical of the idea that there are really people so dishonest that they would claim on their resume to know a language of which they have only copied and pasted chunks? Don't be. I've interviewed some of these people. I wish I could add them to some kind of global blacklist to stop others from wasting their time on them.


The post is pretty harmless, and here he's making just slightly brisk replies to being told that he has an inferiority complex and doesn't know "use strict", although I agree it's not worth bothering with.

If you don't read things that don't bend over backwards to avoid offending people, you'll be the worse for it.




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