I'm not sure I follow. Disclaimers aside: Eric Lippert is for me on the same level as Raymond Chen. An amazing source into Microsoft's world - and yes I know th

I'm not sure I follow. Disclaimers aside: Eric Lippert is for me on the same level as Raymond Chen. An amazing source into Microsoft's world - and yes I know that Eric isn't working there anymore). Your reply again seems to fight SO. I get the feeling you use this article to further your cause, to prove that SO is bad. I've got no stake in that conflict, my SO account is ancient and I'm mostly a reader for years. I don't believe Eric meant to belittle people and I think your impression is .. a lot more negative than it should be. Last but not least: If a rubber duck's 15 year old daughter (Hey, at this point I could turn around and ask you why the example character is female and turn this into a different type of mud-slinging contest) sitting in Nairobi (why Africa?) would type code on her cell phone and it didn't work right away, SO really isn't the answer. You might not like it, but generic "Hey, so I wrote this stuff and it doesn't really work" sort of questions aren't deemed acceptable. Mistaking a QA site with (more and more) strict guidelines for a generic place to call for help and coming up with an example that feels like a call of "think of the (african, female) children)" won't help. This is the wrong place and judging people for these guidelines is .. weird. There might be a need for a place where your fictional characters should be able to ask for help and get real support. I wouldn't know and I can only imagine that it would be hell to try to help out. All of that is totally irrelevant for the article at hand though. Eric teaches people to fish, you seem to argue that he'd (we'd?) hand out the meals instead.