But as Janet says it depends whether I'll actually genuinely learn anything useful from working it out for myself. Some questions I will, others I won't. I've done enough working things out for myself in the past that usually I won't learn anything.
To be honest, a lot of questions I ask are because code isn't very well written or user interfaces are stupid and I think if people write bad code or user interfaces and want other people to use what they've done, they should expect to answer questions about how they work :-)
There's somehow a semi-pervasive culture among programmers that you have to work out everything yourself - it's almost about proving that you're clever enough to be able to do so. I really hate that culture - it's so competitive rather than cooperative. It's like people who assume you are stupid because you don't know certain things. I suppose I get this a bit having gone into programming from a maths background. There are weird gaps in what I know about, but it's not because I'm incapable of understanding what's in those gaps.
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Date: 2006-06-23 11:34 am (UTC)To be honest, a lot of questions I ask are because code isn't very well written or user interfaces are stupid and I think if people write bad code or user interfaces and want other people to use what they've done, they should expect to answer questions about how they work :-)
There's somehow a semi-pervasive culture among programmers that you have to work out everything yourself - it's almost about proving that you're clever enough to be able to do so. I really hate that culture - it's so competitive rather than cooperative. It's like people who assume you are stupid because you don't know certain things. I suppose I get this a bit having gone into programming from a maths background. There are weird gaps in what I know about, but it's not because I'm incapable of understanding what's in those gaps.