On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Joe Wicentowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Finally, someone understands my pure, noble intentions! I aim to advance the > state of the field through the following tactics: lob questions phrased so > vaguely and researched so lightly that rational, compassionate people feel no > choice but to respond lest they let me wallow in my very evident frustration > and cluelessness. Then, when they provide their best answer, I reply even > more belligerently. This pulls all the others into the discussion to sort > out the mess. Rinse, lather, repeat. Eventually, through the mass of > frustration, people start to piece together some vague sense of my original > issue and acknowledge that there was some kernel of a point there. By that > time I have moved on and don't care anymore, and tell everyone so. But look > at what was accomplished. Field, advanced, suckers! > > Other people might have stepped back from their initial sense of frustration, > researched the issue, and made a polite request for assistance or comment. > But that's no fun. And it's not my style. And if you don't like it, go > ahead, call me on it. You'll be sorry. >
If you have already solved your problem you have no reason to be frustrated. The minute you give any sort of detail...... the fatal words in this thread were....... "Let me give a bit of background to the use case motivating the question." someone immediately launches in with code and then expects you to be grateful. So you feel obligated out of politeness and respect to respond and they continue feeding you code and examples and you just want to get back to your work because you already knew that an aggregated group by would get the result but you really want to know why putting things in different collections because they come from different places or have different schemas should mandate the destruction of other relationships that exist in the real world you are modelling. Because in the real world you wouldn't aggregate and group these things - you would simply say they came from the same person. And of course there isn't code to answer that so you either have to ignore the fellow feeding it to you or find some way of saying thats not what I am asking and the longer this situation persists it keeps you from getting on with what you are supposed to be doing and keeps the discussion from getting round to what you actually wanted to talk about. THATS THE POINT where frustration is liable to kick in because without fail on every thread that this happens there are people who get what is being asked straight away. _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
