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"PB" == Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:
PB> Ok, so this is what you get when you mix: sleepiness, performing only
PB> mental experiments not verified in practice, and inattentive reading of
PB> the code.
PB> I'm sorry for bothering. Instruct yourself from my bad example, please.
PB> :-)
If you forbid people to ask for help when the person who is
asked might feel the question groundless or based on "only
mental experiments not verified in practice and inattentive
reading of the code", the value to have a community diminishes.
We ask questions and ask for help because we know others know
more about things we do not know offhand, not necessarily
because we would not ever be able to figure them out ourselves.
If you know somebody else would know the answer immediately for
something that may take you a day or so to figure out, asking
for help is the right thing to do --- your time is better spent
on what you do best (e.g. improving Cogito). I should not feel
bothered by your questions, and I am certainly not feeling
bothered at all (well, at least until seeing the last sentence,
and wondering what you really meant ;-)).
Always glad to be of help.
Dear diary, on Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:54:13AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] told me that...
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"PB" == Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:
PB> Ok, so this is what you get when you mix: sleepiness, performing only
PB> mental experiments not verified in practice, and inattentive reading of
PB> the code.
PB> I'm sorry for bothering. Instruct yourself from my bad example, please.
PB> :-)
If you forbid people to ask for help when the person who is
asked might feel the question groundless or based on "only
mental experiments not verified in practice and inattentive
reading of the code", the value to have a community diminishes.
We ask questions and ask for help because we know others know
more about things we do not know offhand, not necessarily
because we would not ever be able to figure them out ourselves.
If you know somebody else would know the answer immediately for
something that may take you a day or so to figure out, asking
for help is the right thing to do --- your time is better spent
on what you do best (e.g. improving Cogito).
Well, you definitively have a point. I just felt guilty that if I
would've spent ten seconds actually testing it, you wouldn't have to
spent ten minutes (or who knows how long) replying to my silly question.
I should not feel bothered by your questions, and I am certainly not
feeling bothered at all (well, at least until seeing the last
sentence, and wondering what you really meant ;-)).
I meant you all on the mailing list, not you specifically. English is
sometimes annoying. ;-) (And I was just trying to be funny, in my usual
awful way.)
Always glad to be of help.
Thanks. :-)
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor