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>Lengthy discussions can be interesting, but they don't solve problems. They're not useful. Eh? Discussions between experts is exactly how difficult problems a
by ronaldx 13y ago
>Lengthy discussions can be interesting, but they don't solve problems. They're not useful.
Eh? Discussions between experts is exactly how difficult problems are typically solved, in reality.
- brazzy 13y agoNot in the reality I live in. Typically, difficult problems are solved by one expert sitting down and doing some hard work. They may ask others about specific points, but certainly not the kind of thing that gets closed as "not constructive" on SO (or used to, the system has recently changed) - things like "What's better for webapps, Python or Java?", "Do student projects influence job prospects?" or "Should I go back to academia?"
- ronaldx 13y agoI agree with you that certain hard work is best done by one person, if we're talking considering problems with computationally deterministic solutions to be difficult (and ignoring 'standing on the shoulders of giants' effect) then you're probably right. But, for the majority of difficult problems which don't have single fixed solutions, i.e. real-world problems, I wouldn't give a single expert working in isolation the time of day. (The questions you suggest are straw men. I'll only say that I wouldn't want to see those on SE either, but I don't consider those are the style of questions under discussion here.)