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I have the same experience. I also don't understand why, when they ask for help, they can never be bothered to say what they're trying to do, what error messag

• waylandsmithers 5y ago
  Right. When I was learning to code a more seasoned dev told me "The code doesn't do what you want it to do, only what you _tell_ it to do." Really helped me gain the mindset that not only was it my mistake that resulted in code not running, but that it was fixable. Like a game of ping pong. You hit the ball, sometimes the compiler hits it back.
• politician 5y ago
  Then there’s the StackOverflow effect: where you ask a reasonable question X and get a bunch of upvoted condemnations along with directions to do Y instead.
  • loopz 5y ago
    Or, why would you ever consider doing X at all? Ok, thanks for being unhelpful.