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."
Well said!
I've been a member of a group , more "strict" than any other groups.
It's a place for C/C++ programmers where Help Vampires more than often
get these replies :
- http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=ask+your+questions+here+first
- what OS? what Compiler? what have you done so far?
- we are not here to do your homework
- buy a book or find another hobby
- without seeing your code, we can tell that there's an error on line 42
- jerk
- Do your homework yourself and quit being an ass
- have you heard of Google?
- http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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elibol 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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