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Discussion on: ⚡️20 Easy Ways to Be More Productive as a Developer⚡️

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Charles F. Munat

Let's assume that I'm the evilest person on the planet. How is that relevant? Is my comment somehow more or less true based on my own beliefs and behavior? As usual, people who have no good argument simply change the subject and hope no one will notice.

Speaking of which, I must have missed the part of your article where you mentioned how we're going to solve the climate catastrophe, pollution, and pending nuclear war. It didn't seem to be in any of your twenty "easy ways" to be more productive. Neither did you appear to mention what it is that we should be productive at. I guess more productive at destroying the planet or saving it are both acceptable answers.

As my argument wasn't about you or what you, personally, are doing to "stop climate change" (good luck -- my guess is nothing, really), but was about posting articles about efficiency without discussing what that efficiency was in pursuit of -- which is precisely what you did -- it looks like you missed it completely.

But that you took an argument about topics worthy of discussion to be an attack on you personally for your lack of caring about the demise of all life on Earth does smack a bit of barely-repressed guilt.

I was looking around for where it is written that before one can ask a question, one must already know the answer, but I can't find it. I think you might be confused about the purpose of questions.

Finally, if "most of us are trying to do what we can to stop climate change" is true, I must ask just to whom "most of us" refers. To you and your cat? I only ask because if the who is "humanity" or even "most English-speaking people", then we are well and truly screwed, because "trying to do what we can to stop climate change" seems to be doing nothing at all except make it worse.

Now, are you going to respond to the questions I asked, or just sling ad hominem? What is the rush? Where are we rushing to? Why do we need to get there in such a hurry? It is difficult to take anything on dev.to seriously with that big elephant taking up so much space in the room.

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Code_Jedi

"What is the rush? Where are we rushing to? Why do we need to get there in such a hurry?"

We don't need to. If you want to you can. The list is for those who want to.

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Charles F. Munat

Want to get where?

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Code_Jedi

I don't know, ask the readers.