Re: Is the file there?

I feel the need to explain why I gave this question a --.

While I'm very tolerant of very short and simple questions and always think that lazyness is a good quality of a programmer. I also feel that a monk should do his/her homework before asking a question (as we constantly and gently remind others to do a Super Search first before asking questions). This is something that I have learned from PM. Understandably Ahbeyra may be a novice but looking at his (her?) previous questions and writeups and given the resources that PM has. Even without the Camel book he (she?) should have been able to come up with a solution.

I hope I'm not being too harsh. If so -- away on me. I just think Ahbeyra would have learned more if we had nudged him (her?) in the right direction to figure this out himself (herself?). I know I enjoy it more when I figure things out for myself. I remember when I had played a game called The Stone. Its basicaly a puzzle site with a comunity very much like ours. If someone had a hard time with a puzzle instead of receiving the answer outright, they would get a nudge in the right direction to find it themselves. Don't we all at PM strive to not only learn here but to also be the teacher?

BMaximus

sorry Ahbeyra, I can't figure your gender from your name

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Re: Re: Is the file there? by Ahbeyra (Monk) on Oct 25, 2001 at 14:48 UTC
A) Im male, B) Why would i give you --'s for stating your opinion?, C) i checked around, i even looked at other sites, i just didnt find anything that looked like it had to do with what i wanted. ---------------------------------- I love the smell of pastures in the morning... `/tell ahbeyra moo`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Is the file there? by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Oct 25, 2001 at 20:30 UTC
I have some sympathy with this view, but I think it depends on the question. If it's something that is a bit obscure, but which one really ought to be able to figure out, then one should figure it out and keep quiet. But in the present case, this is a question that almost everyone is going to have to deal with in some form or other. In that case, the thread itself can become a very useful learning resource. I find I learn a lot from the dialectic between the different solutions - a dialectic which was very healthy in this thread. As well as presenting a lot of good information, it also presents it in a way that engages one's critical attention, so that one retains the knowledge far better than by reading the same stuff in a book. So I think there's a place for this kind of thread. It does no harm to go over the basic stuff - often one can learn something unexpected from doing so. And for some of us it's not all that basic! (For the avoidance of doubt I haven't voted anyone down on this thread - I thought it was all good stuff. A healthy dialectic, as I say.) § George Sherston	[reply]