Marcus- > On 04/25/2010 02:04 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: >> >> >> Yes I know such positive results are a minority of the posts you're thinking >> about. And yes it takes patience and >> can >> be exasperating, but isn't that generally true of raising kids? They have >> to learn the hard way, and someone has to >> help them, before they can join the community and make their own >> contributions. For me overall, the good has >> outweighed the bad and I don't think my time has been wasted. >> >> >> >> >> > I guess that what's going on with me is that my tolerance level for the > clue-resistant is going down as I > get older. Turning into a right-ol curmudgeon. > > But I want to make clear that I have *nothing* against newbies on this > list. We all start out that way > in a new endeavour (that's what makes it *new* instead of "old hat"). > But the wilfully clue-resistant, > the "entitled"--that's what drives me bonkers. To be clear, I *enjoy* > mentoring the enthusiastic ones, > the ones who "know" that they're without clue, but actually seek to learn. > > It's the ones who believe that the success/failure of *their* project > rests not on their own experience and > and competence, but on the willingness of others to give them a free ride.
Really a good comment, spot-on. I'm always fighting the "dang am I really such a curmudgeon" feeling. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
