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The problem with people hunting for working solutions and not knowledge is that, if you're the kind person who provides said solution, you may be inadvertently
by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
The problem with people hunting for working solutions and not knowledge is that, if you're the kind person who provides said solution, you may be inadvertently thrown into a situation where the poster loses all form of initiative and depends on you to get things done.
You might post a code sample, and they will then return to you asking why it "doesn't work." There will be no attempt to debug it, and you realise you might just have left a syntax error in there by mistake. You fix it, and still it "doesn't work." Your frustration increases with each complaint, and the urge to tell them to figure it the fuck out if they've half a brain becomes more irresistible.
It's almost parasitic, even if well intentioned or in good faith, and it's such a drain when you're giving the help that you'll stop answering questions where the poster evidently never tried, or didn't want to.
- d23 14y agoThis is the exact reason why I gave up on trying to help a particular co-worker of mine. When he still couldn't seem to write the syntax for a basic dictionary in Python after over a year of working in the language, I realized every attempt to help him was a complete waste of my time. He wasn't even trying to learn.