> Mentorship from one of those people would be valuable, but arguing with them about the implementation of something you don't understand isn't how you get that

> Mentorship from one of those people would be valuable, but arguing with them about the implementation of something you don't understand isn't how you get that mentorship. Actually that's exactly how you can provoke them into explaining themselves. Too many experienced people sit in their ivory towers and basically appeal to their authority, "I wrote a kernel therefore I know everything, <insert profanity here>". There's a reason why Cunningham's Law exist, "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."