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On the contrary I feel great pity for people who grow up only knowing an entirely searchable world. There was so much magic and excitement when things were unkn
by newobj 14y ago
On the contrary I feel great pity for people who grow up only knowing an entirely searchable world. There was so much magic and excitement when things were unknown, secret, mysterious.
Specifically trying to solve the kind of problem discussed by the OP, yes it was frustrating as hell but it taught tenacity, resourcefulness, and was ultimately SO satisfying when you figured it out.
Now you just google and get pissed if the first result doesn't have a copy/paste answer to your problem.
- r00fus 14y agoNo, now you google and if you don't find a good answer you post to yahoo answers/stackexchange and start a discussion with other folks who are experiencing the same issues (or experts in that topic). Eventually this gets indexed and google's capabilities to answer increase.
- hackernewbie 14y agoYahoo Answers. Amazing. Have you recently visited their Programming & Design section? How does that community survive?
- lmm 14y agoIt's still, quietly, the best place for what it does. Much like a lot of Yahoo.
- thematt 14y agoThis sums it up: http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/4052532525_0a2c9656ce_o.jpg http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/4052532525_0a2c9...
- gcb0 14y agoYahoo Answers... you mean the College Student Health Care Plan? ...just because it's not for you, doesn't mean it's (totally) useless.
- r00fus 14y agoNot all questions are programming questions. For non-programming questions (ie, baby health questions), it does ok.
- ibudiallo 14y agoI use Google to find yahoo answers.
- pjscott 14y agoI actually feel some pity for people who, because answers were once hard to find, never got in the habit of looking for them. A mystery can be exciting and magical, or it can be intimidating. You remember the magic and excitement because that's the kind of person you were. Others came to the conclusion that curiosity about certain things was pointless, because their odds of finding an answer were so low. These are the people who get stumped by easily-googlable questions because it simply never occurs to them to google, or the people who don't try to plug in a DVD player because the cables look so complicated, even though they aren't really. I get the sense that there used to be more of these people back before information became so easy to find. (A broader point here is that you're a sample containing one person, and probably an outlier in many ways. Be careful when generalizing from yourself.)