It's not just if you try to contribute bad code, just asking the wrong kind of question can get a lot of crap back at you.
It's not just if you try to contribute bad code, just asking the wrong kind of question can get a lot of crap back at you. Of course, if you're genuinely a beginner you don't know you're asking the wrong kind of question. Yes, it's frustrating to help someone who is strugging to run/consume Foo only to eventually find out what they actually wanted to do was Bar and that consuming Baz would have been a much simpler solution. But if you don't have the patience to help, don't try to! Too much programmers think they can fix the world and go around trying to correct beginners[1] when they should just get out of the way. [1] Many high rep stackoverflow users suffer from this, they've seen the same shit too many times and rather get out of the way and let others help the beginners they'll shut down those beginner questions. If a question was valid 5 years ago it should still be valid today, but they seem to forget what it's like to be a beginner.
Posted by eterm on Jul 8, 2015, 2:34 PM
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Are you talking about a technical problem, or a conceptual problem?
This is not uncommon in the more blue-collar businesses.
> I wonder though, do people not strace programs any more?
It's not just if you try to contribute bad code, just asking the wrong kind of question can get a lot of crap back at you.
It's not just if you try to contribute bad code, just asking the wrong kind of question can get a lot of crap back at you. Of course, if you're genuinely a beginner you don't know you're asking the wrong kind of question. Yes, it's frustrating to help someone who is strugging to run/consume Foo only to eventually find out what they actually wanted to do was Bar and that consuming Baz would have been a much simpler solution. But if you don't have the patience to help, don't try to! Too much programmers think they can fix the world and go around trying to correct beginners[1] when they should just get out of the way. [1] Many high rep stackoverflow users suffer from this, they've seen the same shit too many times and rather get out of the way and let others help the beginners they'll shut down those beginner questions. If a question was valid 5 years ago it should still be valid today, but they seem to forget what it's like to be a beginner.
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