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To be fair, there's a lot of people asking for help on X-Y problems in the programming world, especially on python, and often the fastest way to sort out someon
by Enginerrrd 6y ago
To be fair, there's a lot of people asking for help on X-Y problems in the programming world, especially on python, and often the fastest way to sort out someone's issue is to walk it back to the original problem X they were trying to solve.
- at_a_remove 6y agoYeah, but if you don't have an XY problem, you have to spend a lot of your question pre-defending the "it's not an XY problem" stance and lordy ... is that frustrating. There's a lot of people out there who are happy to tell you that you have an XY problem, but when you explain why it is not, ... crickets.
- regularfry 6y agoThere's all the difference in the world between asking "why do you want to do that?" and "why would you want to do that?"