The truth is that some developers, even though they know some facts about
development, lack the basic diagnostic and reasoning skills to be a
developer (and/or, they lack the discipline and drive to do their own
research and acheive any depth of understanding). They can modify code
templates to an extent, but they can't create anything original. The extent
of their prowess is "trial and error".
The same thing is true in a lot of professions -- medical doctors come
immediately to mind. Most of them just follow decision trees based on blood
tests. If there's not a blood test to identify a problem, it doesn't exist
for them. And if there's not a pill to cure it, the patient is at fault
somehow for being sick. And every diagnosis is in isolation as if it
wouldn't be influenced by other conditions or side effects of or
interactions with other treatments or patient lifestyle / diet / exercise.
Despite all this, one thing I will give to doctors is that they have more
self-respect than to have public discussion forums where they allow interns
to post messages along the lines, "URGENT -- Patient with Hangnail --
HELP!!!!!".
Maybe we too need a residency program to weed out the worst of these
wannabees.
--Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Newtz, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 5:27 AM
Subject: [C#.NET] This urgent crap...
>
> [Stands up on pedestal]
>
> You know, I'm really starting to get annoyed by the recent amount of
> posts that say "URGENT" in the subject or something along the lines of
> "answer quickly, it's urgent" in the body. Even if I see "urgent" in the
> subject or body, do I answer the question any faster? Do I skip all the
> rest of the messages I'm looking at just to answer the "urgent" one?
> ABSOLUTELY NOT. Why? Because it's not urgent to me or the rest of the
> group. Simply by posting your question you'll get an answer within a
> couple of hours 95% of the time. That's a pretty damn good response time
> for a free service.
>
> What makes it more annoying is that the "urgent" questions are often
> simplistic ones. The kind of questions that make you think... wow, if
> this individual doesn't know how to do this, but it's *so* urgent, what
> kind of company do they work for who has developers that don't even know
> the basics?
>
> And yes this is a rant - but bottom line is that I would request people
> refrain from letting us know how urgent your problem is. We don't need
> to know, and we don't care. It's pretty arrogant to think otherwise.
>
> I'll leave you all with a link to a specific section of the article our
> group uses as a guide for new members:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#urgent
>
> [Gets down from pedestal]
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