I don't like asking coding questions
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It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago. Usually by the time I have a question I'm buried up to my neck in the problem and totally lost, but even articulating the question fully is difficult, much less getting an answer. Like this: Rendering subrectangles of a control[^] If I have to ask a question it's one of the worst parts of my day in terms of coding. :(
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Have you considered simplifying questions like the linked one?
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It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago. Usually by the time I have a question I'm buried up to my neck in the problem and totally lost, but even articulating the question fully is difficult, much less getting an answer. Like this: Rendering subrectangles of a control[^] If I have to ask a question it's one of the worst parts of my day in terms of coding. :(
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I feel a particular affinity with this chap - xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients[^]
Yes to this.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I find when I start answering my own questions I probably need a break
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A lot of times when I start asking the question I discover that I know the answer! :laugh:
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It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago. Usually by the time I have a question I'm buried up to my neck in the problem and totally lost, but even articulating the question fully is difficult, much less getting an answer. Like this: Rendering subrectangles of a control[^] If I have to ask a question it's one of the worst parts of my day in terms of coding. :(
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
In my first job, my supervisor said I asked too many questions and "might not make it". I never asked anyone another question again; ever. (Unless it dealt with coffee or something).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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In my first job, my supervisor said I asked too many questions and "might not make it". I never asked anyone another question again; ever. (Unless it dealt with coffee or something).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
It sounds like that supervisor didn't take the time to invest in mentoring of new hires. Which is sad because that doesn't make for a healthy work environment.
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It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago. Usually by the time I have a question I'm buried up to my neck in the problem and totally lost, but even articulating the question fully is difficult, much less getting an answer. Like this: Rendering subrectangles of a control[^] If I have to ask a question it's one of the worst parts of my day in terms of coding. :(
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Crazy thought, maybe? Is there a possibility to check how the open source Linux GUI implementation solve that? I mean, only to get some ideas. I'm aware that they have a much more comfortable environemet... Crazy, but who knows.
Someone has solved it/validated a solution I had tried earlier The problem is somewhere else in my code, and maybe even in my (released, used in production) graphics library. :~
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago. Usually by the time I have a question I'm buried up to my neck in the problem and totally lost, but even articulating the question fully is difficult, much less getting an answer. Like this: Rendering subrectangles of a control[^] If I have to ask a question it's one of the worst parts of my day in terms of coding. :(
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
honey the codewitch wrote:
It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago.
Speaking from experience, it's even more depressing when it's your own unanswered post from 5 years ago! :(
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I'm the same. I tend to get white noise when I ask. I have learned to look for similar answers to get pointers to the solution needed ... Asking Google is a skill many don't learn ... sometimes rubber ducking in the shower works for shaping those google search questions...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
