Re: tables
Re: tables
- Subject: Re: tables
- From: Erik Buck <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:49:51 -0400
We all want to help people to use the Cocoa technology that we love
and sometimes be helped ourselves. Otherwise, we wouldn't spend our
time posting to Cocoa mailing lists.
There is the parable that if you give a person a fish, the person eats
for one day. If you teach a person to fish, the person eats for the
rest of their life.
Translating the parable to Cocoa mailing lists, if you try to tell a
person the assumed answer to an ambiguous question, at best you solve
one problem and you most likely just waste time. If you teach a
person how to ask a specific question or find the answer themselves
via the available documentation and resources, you provide the skills
that person will need to solve problems for the rest of their life.
In my opinion, asking someone to read the "How To Ask Questions The
Smart Way" reference http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-
questions.html and then re-ask the question is sometime the most
efficient way to answer a question. No offense is intended. Some
questions just can't be effectively answered, and clarification is
necessary.
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