Dear diary, on Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:54:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that... > >>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes: > > PB> Ok, so this is what you get when you mix: sleepiness, performing only > PB> mental experiments not verified in practice, and inattentive reading of > PB> the code. > > PB> I'm sorry for bothering. Instruct yourself from my bad example, please. > PB> :-) > > If you forbid people to ask for help when the person who is > asked might feel the question groundless or based on "only > mental experiments not verified in practice and inattentive > reading of the code", the value to have a community diminishes. > > We ask questions and ask for help because we know others know > more about things we do not know offhand, not necessarily > because we would not ever be able to figure them out ourselves. > > If you know somebody else would know the answer immediately for > something that may take you a day or so to figure out, asking > for help is the right thing to do --- your time is better spent > on what you do best (e.g. improving Cogito). Well, you definitively have a point. I just felt guilty that if I would've spent ten seconds actually testing it, you wouldn't have to spent ten minutes (or who knows how long) replying to my silly question. > I should not feel bothered by your questions, and I am certainly not > feeling bothered at all (well, at least until seeing the last > sentence, and wondering what you really meant ;-)). I meant you all on the mailing list, not you specifically. English is sometimes annoying. ;-) (And I was just trying to be funny, in my usual awful way.) > Always glad to be of help. Thanks. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon May 30 18:36:15 2005
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