The Frustrating Paradox of the QA Section
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The worst part of that is when you ask a good question your chances of getting a useful answer are rather low. It's an inverse relationship - the better the question the tougher it is to get an answer for. -edit- Well duh. That's what makes it a good question. :rolleyes: Occasionally I have keen sense for the obvious. On other occasions it escapes me.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
I hate it when people ask me good questions. I like stupid questions that I can answer quickly off the top of my head without thinking. Good questions I have to think about for awhile and maybe even do some research. The only upside of good questions is I usually learn something also.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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I definitely see that. I can discuss things with a few people and usually that amounts to me vocalizing my issues and that in itself is usually enough to trigger an insight. Often that means talking to myself, especially since I am working at home. Although I have found my dogs to be good listeners, they rarely have helpful ideas.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
My hubby tells me "put another variable in. that will fix it" It never helps. :laugh:
Real programmers use butterflies
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I hate it when people ask me good questions. I like stupid questions that I can answer quickly off the top of my head without thinking. Good questions I have to think about for awhile and maybe even do some research. The only upside of good questions is I usually learn something also.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
I've found that in life the right question is worth several right answers.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I definitely see that. I can discuss things with a few people and usually that amounts to me vocalizing my issues and that in itself is usually enough to trigger an insight. Often that means talking to myself, especially since I am working at home. Although I have found my dogs to be good listeners, they rarely have helpful ideas.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Get a rubber duck. Mine is an excellent listener and solves problems that I can't. :-D
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My hubby tells me "put another variable in. that will fix it" It never helps. :laugh:
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Often, as I describe the problem or the vague plan of attack it seems to solve itself along the way. That was one good thing when (1) I was working in the office, and (2) there actually was (at least) a second developer around. Oddly, still occurs if I'm typing the same mess into an email trying to describe the plan, the obstacles. and the options to remove/evade them.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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The better developer you are, the better questions you will ask. Conversely, the not so great developers need most of the help. I'm not sure how to fix that. :sigh:
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Conversely, the not so great developers need most of the help. I'm not sure how to fix that.
At least from the perspective of Q&A, sometimes the answer is clear: euthanasia.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Often, as I describe the problem or the vague plan of attack it seems to solve itself along the way. That was one good thing when (1) I was working in the office, and (2) there actually was (at least) a second developer around. Oddly, still occurs if I'm typing the same mess into an email trying to describe the plan, the obstacles. and the options to remove/evade them.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
Yeah that happens to me too. Usually right after I have emailed a client about it. 😭
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Get a rubber duck. Mine is an excellent listener and solves problems that I can't. :-D
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Does a rubber chicken work? I could wave it over my code
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Does a rubber chicken work? I could wave it over my code
Real programmers use butterflies
I've never tried it, but the secret with a duck is explaining the problem in detail so that the duck can solve it.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
I've found that in life the right question is worth several right answers.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
I've found that in life the right question is worth several right answers.
:thumbsup: But sadly you don't always get them :sigh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I've never tried it, but the secret with a duck is explaining the problem in detail so that the duck can solve it.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Hmmm. I'm suspicious of ducks in general. I wonder if one wouldn't lead me astray.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Conversely, the not so great developers need most of the help. I'm not sure how to fix that.
At least from the perspective of Q&A, sometimes the answer is clear: euthanasia.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
This reminds me of what my husband used to say back when we were teenagery and he worked helldesk at the local community college. He said he had a paperclip for rebooting the imacs and an icepick for rebooting their users. :-\
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Hmmm. I'm suspicious of ducks in general. I wonder if one wouldn't lead me astray.
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The duck is your alter ego and confidant, so I doubt it!
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
The duck is your alter ego and confidant, so I doubt it!
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Yeah I have one of those. It taught me to read at 3. A shrink called it a "partially integrated identity" or some such, but they like to label crazy. I just call it Scout. When it first came to me I didn't give it a name. It's very helpful, and maybe where most of my intellectual and particularly my analytical heft comes from. I bury it in the wiring for years at a time but it's still there doing stuff, I'm sure, because I don't get stupid when it's "gone." Or maybe I'm just loopy. That's as likely. Whatever. It helps me code and build stuff. I like that.
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The better developer you are, the better questions you will ask. Conversely, the not so great developers need most of the help. I'm not sure how to fix that. :sigh:
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Actually, it's our future managers ... and developers. "You still programming? I'm gonna be an Analyst! or manager .."
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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The better developer you are, the better questions you will ask. Conversely, the not so great developers need most of the help. I'm not sure how to fix that. :sigh:
Real programmers use butterflies
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The better developer you are, the better questions you will ask. Conversely, the not so great developers need most of the help. I'm not sure how to fix that. :sigh:
Real programmers use butterflies
Even the not-so-great developers seem to be in short supply these days. They're increasingly getting drowned out by the "do my work for me" brigade. :sigh: IIRC, we used to get the occasional no-effort homework assignment posted between the genuine questions. Recently it seems to be the other way round. And usually multiple copies of the same homework assignment, because half the class is too lazy to think for themselves.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Often, as I describe the problem or the vague plan of attack it seems to solve itself along the way. That was one good thing when (1) I was working in the office, and (2) there actually was (at least) a second developer around. Oddly, still occurs if I'm typing the same mess into an email trying to describe the plan, the obstacles. and the options to remove/evade them.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
It's send the email that usually unblocks the problem. The tension is gone and suddenly one is using all the right search words!
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This reminds me of what my husband used to say back when we were teenagery and he worked helldesk at the local community college. He said he had a paperclip for rebooting the imacs and an icepick for rebooting their users. :-\
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I was alomost going to post something "he's a man after my own heart", but then I realized that in the case of imacs I'd need to soak in in brine overnight, first. (Aside from avoiding the waste of a perfectly good paperclip).
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Does a rubber chicken work? I could wave it over my code
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No, a real chicken is required
