Further off topic, but this week I have run into several forum posts featured for my search (I’m looking at you, Auto Hot Key) where the moderator responded with a snarky lmgtfy instead of answering the question. That means that I have wasted my time reading down a thread I found searching for a specific issue, and the first few answers I find are people saying to try searching for the answer instead of actually attempting to answer the question.
By the way, guess what ends up the top result when you follow the link?
It’s also better for a lot of things to have it explained by a regular person who knows a subject deeply, instead of reading some dry scientific paper or something.
If is absolutely imperative that we learn to read up on topics and synthesize our own information. It’s also incredibly helpful for our growth in a topic to learn to explain it to newcomers.
Newcomers have little to no frame of reference, so they perform unwise actions and don’t seem to be able to follow what appears to be simple instructions. On some level, like small children, most people need their first few bites prechewed.
Once they learn the material, they will reflect their learning process onto others. If all they had were a long series of failures and RTFM thrown at them until they got it, then that’s what they are likely to push. If someone can be kind enough to direct people to what and why, (take a look at the -t flag and look at the example here), a community can grow more healthy.
Yeah, it sucks having the same constant questions thrown at you. If you find it frustrating, you really don’t need to engage. Back to the point in AHK. they have a robust manual with examples. It still took me an afternoon to untangle the language behind how to make the GUI button do things. Once I understood, it was simple.
The part I was stuck on was actually grabbing the full user name. It should be a simple action, yet it turns out it requires a wmi interaction I didn’t think about. I eventually found a bite I could chew, but now I realize I can pull data from WMI if needed.
Further off topic, but this week I have run into several forum posts featured for my search (I’m looking at you, Auto Hot Key) where the moderator responded with a snarky lmgtfy instead of answering the question. That means that I have wasted my time reading down a thread I found searching for a specific issue, and the first few answers I find are people saying to try searching for the answer instead of actually attempting to answer the question.
By the way, guess what ends up the top result when you follow the link?
It’s also better for a lot of things to have it explained by a regular person who knows a subject deeply, instead of reading some dry scientific paper or something.
I hear that the act of reading things that are a little bit challenging can be good for cognitive development.
I mean, we could also ask strangers to chew our food for us because chewing things can be difficult.
If is absolutely imperative that we learn to read up on topics and synthesize our own information. It’s also incredibly helpful for our growth in a topic to learn to explain it to newcomers.
Newcomers have little to no frame of reference, so they perform unwise actions and don’t seem to be able to follow what appears to be simple instructions. On some level, like small children, most people need their first few bites prechewed.
Once they learn the material, they will reflect their learning process onto others. If all they had were a long series of failures and RTFM thrown at them until they got it, then that’s what they are likely to push. If someone can be kind enough to direct people to what and why, (take a look at the -t flag and look at the example here), a community can grow more healthy.
Yeah, it sucks having the same constant questions thrown at you. If you find it frustrating, you really don’t need to engage. Back to the point in AHK. they have a robust manual with examples. It still took me an afternoon to untangle the language behind how to make the GUI button do things. Once I understood, it was simple.
The part I was stuck on was actually grabbing the full user name. It should be a simple action, yet it turns out it requires a wmi interaction I didn’t think about. I eventually found a bite I could chew, but now I realize I can pull data from WMI if needed.