| ??? 06/26/09 16:22 Read: times Msg Score: +1 +1 Informative |
#166504 - No, don't agree with "exhausted all the possibilities" Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Charles Townsend said:
Another response is "have you searched google?"
Usually the person would already have exhausted all of the possibilities before asking for help. So why jump on them? There is a POLITE way to say FU**-**F! Sorry, but most of the time, you can cut the question they posted on this forum and paste into Google, and one of the first 10 links will hold a good answer. So no, I do not agree on "already have exhausted all of the possibilities." When you can not post the question into Google, then that is normally because the question is missing critical details. Details that will require us to ask for the missing pieces. Someone who have exhausted all the possibilities would realize that the selected processor is critical (since he/she would have found hundreds of solutions - all looking different depending on processor) and he/she would have realized that some solutions are small and cheap but with big limitations, while other solutions are big and expensive, but with few limitations. So he/she would know that it is important to tell if the solution is intended for a one-off project, or for massproduction, and if it is more important to pay a lot of money and get it running quickly, or if it is better to select a cheap solution where a lot of own work will be needed. No, the people who do get rather "dry" answers are people who do ask about (often very trivial) problems without giving any indications that they have spent time. And when they do get answers, their follow-up questions further proves that they have not exhausted any possibilities - they do not take the received help and start fiddling with. They may possibly spend 10 minutes with example code and when getting the first compilation warning/error directly returns back with "it doesn't work" - a very big indication that they are not people too interested in anything exhaustive (besides possibly boozing or getting laid). It doesn't really matter what programmers or hardware forum you visit. A visitor who has spent time with their problem normally gets excellent responses from the start - because it doesn't take many seconds for them to make it clear that they have a will to take on a problem. People who have "already exhausted all of the possibilities" can get days and days of help. The ones who don't get help normally haven't even time to write up a decent request - and it does not matter what their native language is. |
