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| Mar 1, 2012 at 8:08 | comment | added | Nathan Cox | even still, you can answer the question with a simple "PHP.net hosts the official manual for the language. if you read the section on string manipulation you'll find the info you need." That qualifies as a valid and concise answer (I never said you had to write a technical manual on the subject for them). "Ask Google," however, is not an acceptable answer. | |
| Mar 1, 2012 at 6:34 | comment | added | Damien Pirsy | Looks like your definition of "asnwer" is pretty wide. A simple example from the tags I have experience with: "PHP - how do you concatenate strings?" Please don't tell me you aren't able to answer this by browsing the official manual. This is the kind of questions I refer to: plenty of docs, books and tutorials put you in the position to answer yourself with a minimal effort; they're written to prevent common questions by already providing the material to answer. That's a "google question", there's no excuse for someone unwilling to make such a tiny effort | |
| Mar 1, 2012 at 0:37 | comment | added | Nathan Cox | So... where do you guys think that these answers come from that you're finding on Google? If not for people willing to sit down and explain something, you'd be screwed. There would be no answers on google, no books on topics you're researching. You'd be left to work every problem out from the very basest of beginnings, and we'd still be in the middle ages. Or are you claiming that the "Grey stuff" in your heads has, for the entirety of your life, come up with answers all on it's own without external influence? | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 23:54 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | I did read past that statement, but I admit to not paying much attention. Now I have read the rest of the post, and I don't see anything that qualifies the "duty" statement, so -1. I have a son who used to ask me how to spell words. I answered him... for a while. Now I tell him to look in a dictionary. Have I failed in my duty? | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 23:49 | comment | added | Damien Pirsy | [2/2] What happens when you face a problem and there's noone to ask? you're simply stuck, panic growing in your head. C'mon, we're on a lucky era were information is just one click away, you just need to learn how to search, how to filter the results, how to make sense of them, and how to work by yourself. If a question is easily answerable by Googling a bit, and you still decide to invest your time in it instead, you're actually just offering your neck to an help vampire who lives on clinging onto the others. And you're not helping him, just giving him another piece of fish to save the day. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 23:46 | comment | added | Damien Pirsy | Agree with @JonEricson. 1st: if it were your work, it would be your "duty"; 2nd: you don't NEED to ask in order to get answers to your problems; sometimes, you need to activate that grey stuff you've inside your head and work out a solution by yourself; you've been lucky to have always around someone to answer your infinite questions; for the rest of the people (or just me?) often is a matter of making sense of what you have and start thinking. And, I assure you, you learn A LOT just by NOT ASKING. Incessant asking leads to brain atrophy, and you get dependend from the others. [1/2] | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 23:40 | comment | added | Nathan Cox | Sounds as if you didn't bother reading past that statement. It is exactly that kind of attitude that detracts from the greater good... particularly in communities exclusively dedicated towards answering questions. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 23:04 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | -1: "If someone comes to you and asks you a question that you have the knowledge required to answer than it is your duty to answer them." That way lies madness and frustration. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 22:54 | history | answered | Nathan Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |