> take other code and modify it slightly I had sort of a horrifying revelatory experience at a Java User's Group a few years ago (back when I erroneously thoug

> take other code and modify it slightly I had sort of a horrifying revelatory experience at a Java User's Group a few years ago (back when I erroneously thought that attending Java User's Groups was worthwhile). This was when Hadoop was fairly new, and the speaker was talking about some of the challenges that his group ran into getting it up and running. At some point, a woman interrupted him and said "but when you had an error, why didn't you just google the error message and find the solution?" He was admirably patient with her when he explained that in most cases, there was no error _message_, but actual incorrect behavior (or just nothing at all), but she kept arguing with him as though he was missing something obvious and important. Here was somebody with enough software experience to be attending a Java User's Group who had never encountered (or more likely had just ignored) a problem that a google message search couldn't fix.