Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Neil Cerutti Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Don't feed the troll... Date: 14 Jun 2013 15:54:06 GMT Organization: Norwich University Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <6dfa3707-80f4-407a-a109-66dbb0130513@googlegroups.com> <51b83e5a$0$29998$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <51b90ead$0$29997$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <51b9708b$0$29872$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jaIDshlKvAhdz7h/GEMa5Q7SGfLw6H5SaShYDnhJdlo/H/CdhI Cancel-Lock: sha1:pf6+F0SNlxPGIBC1qlVuZpA0I3U= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1/mm/ao (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:48168 On 2013-06-14, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Now there is nothing wrong in being ignorant. The question is > how do you proceed from there. The answer is not by starting a > project that is far above your ability and pestering the > experts in the hope they will spoon feed you. A major issue is this: the spoon-feeding he does receive is unefficacious. Smart, well-meaning, articulate people's time is getting squandered. I read the responses. I've learned things from them. But Nikos has not. And once a discussion devolves to reitteration even that value is lost. And perhaps worst of all, there's none of the closure or vicarious catharsis that usually comes from a well-designed educational transaction. -- Neil Cerutti