I'm perfectly fine with needing to look up half of the functions I call or syntax for something I don't do often. As long as documentation is good, I just consi

I'm perfectly fine with needing to look up half of the functions I call or syntax for something I don't do often. As long as documentation is good, I just consider it outsourcing the bits of my brain that I'm bad at (memorisation) so that I can spend my thinking time solving my actual problem. But what really bothers me is the number of people that ask someone else before consulting the documentation. IRC, Stack Overflow, and mailing lists seem to be full of questions that are exact copies of #1 in the FAQ or easily answered with a quick trip to `man`. Or even quickly searching the place that they asked for the other twenty people that have asked this question today. Just look at the front page of Stack Overflow. Any any given day it seems to have half "here's a stack trace that I haven't bothered to read. fixitfixitfixit" and half questions that might as well be the exact title of the man page that they should read.