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From: danparker276@yahoo.com on 14 Sep 2006 14:03 Brian McCauley wrote: > Michele Dondi wrote: > > > On 13 Sep 2006 15:31:58 -0700, "danparker276(a)yahoo.com" > > <danparker276(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > >Why does everyone have to always say "read the docs". This is > > > > Because some people tries very hard to keep the docs up to date and > > rich and helpful, maybe? Because it is the best way to teach one how > > to find quickly help without bothering people with questions that do > > not really deserve being asked? > > That's only part of it. There's also the fact that to an experienced > programmer just looking at an inappropriate denormalization is painful. > Retyping information that's covered in the standard docs is a > denomalization. So even if it weren't for the fact that it's more > effort for the person answering and less help to the person asking I'd > still be uncomfortable retyping. So if your friend asked you what's on TV tonight (and you know you were watching Prison Break), you'd tell him "Look it up in the TV guide". It's called being nice. Look at me, I got over 9000 MySpace friends!!!! I'm a stud.
From: Ted Zlatanov on 14 Sep 2006 15:45 On 14 Sep 2006, danparker276(a)yahoo.com wrote: > being a .net programmer puts me on a higher evolutionary scale, and > I get more chicks that way. So you've evolved into a chicken? That explains a *lot* about .Net programmers. Ted
From: danparker276@yahoo.com on 14 Sep 2006 16:37 Serious? Was that supposed to be funny? I scored with 2 chicks last weekend! Think about that next time your home alone on friday night. Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On 14 Sep 2006, danparker276(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > > being a .net programmer puts me on a higher evolutionary scale, and > > I get more chicks that way. > > So you've evolved into a chicken? That explains a *lot* about .Net > programmers. > > Ted
From: RedGrittyBrick on 14 Sep 2006 18:00 danparker276(a)yahoo.com wrote: > Brian McCauley wrote: > >>Michele Dondi wrote: >> >> >>>On 13 Sep 2006 15:31:58 -0700, "danparker276(a)yahoo.com" >>><danparker276(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Why does everyone have to always say "read the docs". This is >>> >>>Because some people tries very hard to keep the docs up to date and >>>rich and helpful, maybe? Because it is the best way to teach one how >>>to find quickly help without bothering people with questions that do >>>not really deserve being asked? >> >>That's only part of it. There's also the fact that to an experienced >>programmer just looking at an inappropriate denormalization is painful. >>Retyping information that's covered in the standard docs is a >>denomalization. So even if it weren't for the fact that it's more >>effort for the person answering and less help to the person asking I'd >>still be uncomfortable retyping. > > > So if your friend asked you what's on TV tonight (and you know you were > watching Prison Break), you'd tell him "Look it up in the TV guide". > It's called being nice. How about if some total stranger shouted out "whats on TV tonight" whilst holding a TV guide in their hands?
From: danparker276@yahoo.com on 14 Sep 2006 18:00
I'd tell her what's on, and then her and all her model friends would then want to watch it at my place. RedGrittyBrick wrote: > danparker276(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > Brian McCauley wrote: > > > >>Michele Dondi wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On 13 Sep 2006 15:31:58 -0700, "danparker276(a)yahoo.com" > >>><danparker276(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Why does everyone have to always say "read the docs". This is > >>> > >>>Because some people tries very hard to keep the docs up to date and > >>>rich and helpful, maybe? Because it is the best way to teach one how > >>>to find quickly help without bothering people with questions that do > >>>not really deserve being asked? > >> > >>That's only part of it. There's also the fact that to an experienced > >>programmer just looking at an inappropriate denormalization is painful. > >>Retyping information that's covered in the standard docs is a > >>denomalization. So even if it weren't for the fact that it's more > >>effort for the person answering and less help to the person asking I'd > >>still be uncomfortable retyping. > > > > > > So if your friend asked you what's on TV tonight (and you know you were > > watching Prison Break), you'd tell him "Look it up in the TV guide". > > It's called being nice. > > How about if some total stranger shouted out "whats on TV tonight" > whilst holding a TV guide in their hands? |