Re: Flame retardant
Re: Flame retardant
- Subject: Re: Flame retardant
- From: Joseph Feld <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 23:50:56 -0400
on 5/23/02 11:00 PM, Erik J. Barzeski at email@hidden wrote:
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Why is it that some people fail to understand that such "honest questions"
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waste the time of people, even if all they have to do is hit "delete"?
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Or should I be allowed to ask any on-topic question so long as it's
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"honest," regardless of where else I might find the information without
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bothering developers who have seen 199 other people ask the same question in
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the previous 18 months.
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> Many times, due to the dearth/organization of Apple's documentation, it's
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> hard
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> to know where the 'TFM' is before one can 'R' it..
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I'm tired of seeing this as a reason. Cocoa documentation has not a single
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"description forthcoming," and by extension, Google, my site, the other
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sites, and the mailing list archives can all be considered "documentation."
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There's NO dearth. And with a search engine (hey, even Help Viewer has one)
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there is no real lack of organization.
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I'm all for helping newbies, but sometimes "tough love" is what's needed to
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get a better programmer in the end. I said my last post was my last, and I
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guess I lied... Hopefully I won't this time.
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So if there's no dearth of documentation or organization, no reason why
anyone shouldn't be able to find the answer to any question they have
without disturbing real developers, why is Apple bothering to maintain this
list? And, since this is an Apple-run forum I suppose it would be relevant
to point out that Apple needs Cocoa newbies far more than those newbies need
Cocoa or Apple. Sorry, but in my opinion the two seconds it takes to hit
delete benefits the Cocoa community as a whole far more than "tough love",
which is easily misinterpreted and tends to chase people away despite any
noble intent on the part of the responder.
--
Joseph Feld
email@hidden
"You have the right to bear arms and the right to arm bears...whatever the
hell you wanna do."--Robin Williams
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