Haha! Dammit Ryan, what I meant to say was that our brains work
better when the right conditions are met. i.e. - sufficient caffeine
intake, balanced hormone levels, and the lack of men asking us to do
everything for them. :)
I considered this post considerably before posting it.
On 4/26/06, Jonathan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I forgot to change the subject line to ask my question as well. I was
> not referring to the article, but to the reaction to people who ask for help
> in general.
>
> On 4/26/06, elibol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Wholy crap Jonathan I give you an E for (E)xcellent thesis. I didn't have
> > the time nor the patience to read it, so I apologize, however, I think I
> > should point out that nowhere in the article does it categorize anyone as
> > smart or stupid.
> >
> > I believe this point is important to emphasize:
> >
> > "This is autonomous behavior. Again, we shouldn't hate the Help Vampire.
> > Or
> > stake them. They know not what they do, only that they are driven to do
> > it,
> > and I believe they can be saved."
> >
> > M.
> >
> > On 4/26/06, Jonathan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to offer a basic counterpoint to this: what if the question is
> > just
> > > from a beginner, who has in fact researched a problem found the
> > > documentation/resources incomplete in some way? Is it just because a
> > > person
> > > is a beginner that you will not offer help?
> > >
> > > Case in point, and be patient with me. I am not by any means venting
> > here,
> > > but I offered a question some time ago about the basic placement of
> > > anonymous functions like btn1.onRelease =
> > > function(){getURL(_root.variable_name,"_blank");} and also asked about
> > > whether or not such a function required the _root if it was in fact on
> > the
> > > _root timeline. I actually received some very nice assistance on this
> > and
> > > I
> > > appreciate the poster, since though I did discover that this was true
> > > through experimentation myself, he did give me a short lesson on scope.
> > I
> > > had already learned about the Delegate class, but this basic issue was
> > not
> > > clear in my reading, so I would not know I had to use _root or Delegate
> > or
> > > what have you. I do know some Javascript and PHP and so programming is
> > not
> > > beyond me, but learning a new technology from the ground up is the way I
> > > learn generally. I like to know *all* the aspects. So please permit
> > those
> > > who are learning and obviously trying the benefit of the doubt.
> > >
> > > Another thing is further questions on the same subject. In this same
> > > issue,
> > > I had the question "are such function assignments applicable to a button
> > > if
> > > the code is placed before the button on the timeline?" I got a no, of
> > > course, which was a basic thing I had sketchy knowledge on. What I had
> > was
> > > an ad sent to us by a client wherein the previous coder had used on()
> > > handlers on the clips and I was trying to rewrite it to include the
> > > anonymous functions and our variables, as stated before. When I wrote in
> > > the
> > > code in a keyframe in the actions layer above where the button was
> > > instantiated, it worked, but when a new keyframe in the button layer
> > came
> > > up, I had to re-enter the code there as well. This seemed like
> > repetitive
> > > work and my further question about this was not answered.
> > >
> > > My point is, does this make me dumb? No. It would make me lazy however
> > if
> > > I
> > > did not research this. But this basic practice of where code should be
> > > written and how often was not clear to me since the project was not
> > > working
> > > in subsequent frames and the documentation I had read seemed to say
> > write
> > > and be done with it.
> > >
> > > I suppose I am both asking this general question again, to help solidify
> > > my
> > > knowledge, and also pointing out that this does not make those who try
> > but
> > > fail stupid. All I am saying is that I appreciate all your knowledge on
> > > this
> > > subject, but please have patience with those who are trying to learn and
> > > distinguish them from the vampires who ask questions that are so general
> > > that they lack any knowledge of Flash.
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