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It's tempting to feel like asking numerous questions can be "bugging people". Unless they tell you "Sorry, I'm busy today from X to Y" (they should if they resp
by spondyl 8y ago
It's tempting to feel like asking numerous questions can be "bugging people". Unless they tell you "Sorry, I'm busy today from X to Y" (they should if they respect their own time), look at it as providing the opportunity to teach
It sounds silly at first but for those of us who like to share what we learn, or think others aren't interested, we love it when anyone has questions for us!
Don't be afraid of failing a lot either. Personally I've learnt a great deal of things just because I tried to do nonsense things that failed and taught me a lesson.
I first dove into unicode (and did a talk at a meetup) because I had this absurdly stupid idea to make a program that "prints hotdog emojis every X minutes". It didn't work but just asking "Why?" lead me to a lot of answers and even more questions.
You never know when seemingly useless info comes in handy again (like obscure modules in the docs for your favourite language)