If you have never used either, then please consider this an accidental introduction to a slightly different culture.

When you ask a question online, you are asking other people to volunteer their time and energy for your sake. They are willing to do so, else they would not do it, but they tend to think that their time has value, and prefer to have it treated that way. Among other things this makes it rather irritating to find out that someone asked the same exact question in 10 different places without waiting to find out whether the first would have answered it. This means that 9 out of 10 sets of volunteers have just been asked to do useless work when they could have answered someone else's question.

While it might feel great for you to have all of these experts hastening to provide you with answers, it isn't very nice for people who don't get answers, and it isn't very nice for the experts involved. It isn't very nice for people whose questions may get passed over. And if that becomes common, then it becomes harder and harder to find experts who are willing to volunteer time and energy to produce those answers, which is really not very nice.

As for people thinking they have the only answer, that had nothing to do with what merlyn said or why you said it. You are actually likely (ironically) to get the best variety of questions if you ask a good question that people have multiple answers for, and people know the other answers that have already been given so they can choose whether or not to find one you don't already have. TIMTOWTDI, but if people think independently, they surprisingly often come up with the same answers. (Yet more evidence that asking multiple groups the same question results in useless duplication of work.)

In reply to Re (tilly) 3: Parallel Downloads using Parallel::ForkManager or whatever works!!! by tilly
in thread Parallel Downloads using Parallel::ForkManager or whatever works!!! by jamesluc

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