I agree wholeheartedly. Definitely a bully sort-of post for no good reason. Reminds me a bit of the sort of chip-on-their-shoulder hackers that aren't very fun to work with.
I think it's fine for people to offer constructive criticism to those trying to help the development community, but I don't see any reason to be so mean about it. Belittling them is a great way to discourage people from exploring better/more approaches down the line. I don't want to see that as I'm particularly fond of ways of capturing knowledge that old technologies left on the table-- our bug.gd error search site is built entirely on that premise.
Towards his arguments, Even if the world's best hackers won't have the time to toss in help on the site, I know I've had some of the best learning experiences in my life because I took some time to explain something I didn't know 100% before answering. That's part of how you get to be an expert. Even if the site doesn't produce the world's most amazing answers, perhaps it will help build the next generation of developers into solid hackers.
Anyway, enough with that kind of meanness. I know from doing thousands of code reviews in my career that there is no developer who codes things perfectly even 80% of the time. Lighten up and stop judging people.
If you want to show "the blind" how awesome you are then hop in there and toss in your better answers.
"... Anyway, enough with that kind of meanness. I know from doing thousands of code reviews in my career that there is no developer who codes things perfectly even 80% of the time. Lighten up and stop judging people. ..."
Good point. The telling point wrt StackOverflow I've been learning listening to the development converstations ~ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/08/podcast-17/ , then watching how the problems are solve and watching the results. Talk alone is rather hollow.
I think it's fine for people to offer constructive criticism to those trying to help the development community, but I don't see any reason to be so mean about it. Belittling them is a great way to discourage people from exploring better/more approaches down the line. I don't want to see that as I'm particularly fond of ways of capturing knowledge that old technologies left on the table-- our bug.gd error search site is built entirely on that premise.
Towards his arguments, Even if the world's best hackers won't have the time to toss in help on the site, I know I've had some of the best learning experiences in my life because I took some time to explain something I didn't know 100% before answering. That's part of how you get to be an expert. Even if the site doesn't produce the world's most amazing answers, perhaps it will help build the next generation of developers into solid hackers.
Anyway, enough with that kind of meanness. I know from doing thousands of code reviews in my career that there is no developer who codes things perfectly even 80% of the time. Lighten up and stop judging people.
If you want to show "the blind" how awesome you are then hop in there and toss in your better answers.