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I don't ever tall a junior that they are doing something in a less-than-optimal way. I always ask them why they're doing it that way. At the end of each convers
by stronglikedan 1y ago
I don't ever tall a junior that they are doing something in a less-than-optimal way. I always ask them why they're doing it that way. At the end of each conversation, one of us has learned something. Sometimes I learn an alternate approach, and sometimes they learn why their alternate approach won't work in the long run. Either way, it's never a confrontational conversation.
- idontwantthis 1y agoAsking questions is always the best way to correct someone (Hey Socrates). You avoid triggering defense, and if it turns out you were wrong, you don’t sound like a jackass.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- lukan 1y agoYou still have to be sensible in the way how you ask questions. Very possible to intentionally or unintentionally insult and trigger lots of other things just by "asking a question" (my speciality).
- sevensor 1y agoI try to channel Terry Gross. “You say it’s very important to frob the encabulator before and after you linearize the splines? Interesting, tell me more about that.” I don’t just want to correct bad code, I want to understand the misunderstandings that produced it and fix those. Otherwise you just wind up with more bad code.
- mrheosuper 1y ago"Do you know where you are wrong ?" will definitely trigger people's defense
- 71bw 1y agoThis is why I never went into CS educationally. I was never treated in a respectful way by the Polish system. Always treated like ass