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Did these kids hate humans because they were an invasive species that should be eradicated? Or did they love humans and not want them to become extinct? Imponderable questions, these, which perhaps college sophomores stayed up all night hashing out over pizza and beer while Rufus was out alone with a tripod and a rifle hunting a demon.

Termination Shock

Neal Stephenson

Ian Malpass, an engineer at Etsy observes, In that moment when we do something that causes the entire site to go down, we get this “ice-water down the spine” feeling, and likely the first thought through our head is, “I suck and I have no idea what I’m doing.” We need to stop ourselves from doing that, as it is route to madness, despair, and feelings of being an imposter, which is something that we can’t let happen to good engineers. The better question to focus on is, “Why did it make sense to me when I took that action?”

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

The ad hominem attack is a [logical](https://www.logicalfallacies.org/) [fallacy](https://www.logicalfallacies.org/) associated with trying to undermine the opponent's arguments by personal attacks, through attacking their character or skill level, etc. The ad hominem attack uses an accepted fact about a person to undermine their credibility despite the lack of causal connection between the two parts of the argument.

Ad Hominem

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