Re: snakes and ladders

Coupled with that I also tend to take the words of strangers as being correct and knowledgeable, a personal bias which I am slowly overcoming as I discover more and I am therefore better able to separate the crap-talkers from those with real insight. Man it came as a shock to me just how many people actually talk out of their arses as if they are all knowing... but that's people I guess.

In case you haven't heard of it, see Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. Including 90% of what you and I write.

The trick to not looking like a fool is to realize when what you've written is crap as you hit the preview button, rather than just as you hit the create button like so many new members :)

I suspect the trick to looking wise is to realize the 4 in 5 cases* when what you've edited is still crap, and then deciding not to post it after all.

(*) 0.9 * 0.9 = 0.81, or roughly 4 out of 5

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Re^2: snakes and ladders by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 25, 2011 at 23:14 UTC
In case you haven't heard of it, see Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. When I say that about CPAN, there's always a large mob of Perlmonks ready to lynch me.	[reply]
Re^3: snakes and ladders by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 25, 2011 at 23:43 UTC
No synonym of platitude is "reproducable and statistically accepted evidence". Put another way, the barriers to uploading with PAUSE are sufficiently high that the awful on CPAN looks less than 50% to me.	[reply]
Re^4: snakes and ladders by Logicus (Initiate) on Aug 26, 2011 at 06:01 UTC
hrm, how about a site to index CPAN modules in a different way? One of the difficulties new end users find is that there are so many modules out there it is difficult to find the best and most "modern" ones. I understand Task::Kensho is working on this sort of problem in the realm of code...	[reply]
Re^5: snakes and ladders by pemungkah (Priest) on Aug 26, 2011 at 08:16 UTC
Re^2: snakes and ladders by emilbarton (Scribe) on Aug 26, 2011 at 08:42 UTC
Yes, and I have noticed that statues always look wiser than real men. At home it's my salt shaker that hits the jackpot, never says a word, the wisest one.	[reply]