as for the "unethical" part, I concider this borderline, where the main concern is in the (paid) work time spent on Perlmonks, opposed to doing real work... ;-)
I defer to the meditation on technical debt =>
Technical debt?
I have solved lots of work problems by reading through Perlmonks - I do agree that this is mirky water im stepping in, but I believe there is a balance between work and grokking through techincal websites.
Ted
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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."
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