{"id":8558,"date":"2005-01-29T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T18:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/29\/things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument\/"},"modified":"2005-04-10T01:26:40","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T22:26:40","slug":"things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/29\/things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to say when you’re losing a technical argument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here<\/a> are 70 things you can say when losing an argument in technical (read: computer) discussion. If you think that all of these are just jokes and cannot happen in the real argument – think again. I have heard a few of these within the last few years. Better even, I have used few of these myself. ;)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here are 70 things you can say when losing an argument in technical (read: computer) discussion. If you think that all of these are just jokes and cannot happen in the real argument – think again. I have heard a few of these within the last few years. Better even, I have used few of … Continue reading Things to say when you’re losing a technical argument<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[2418],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10814,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/29\/daily-tweets\/","url_meta":{"origin":8558,"position":0},"title":"Daily tweets","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Called for food delivery from X Sub.But they are actually Sub X. 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