Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1396964832 11608 64.122.56.22 (8 Apr 2014 13:47:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:47:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:69861 On 2014-04-08, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:07 PM, James Brewer wrote: > >> Basically, I want to be a better engineer. Where can I find someone >> willing to point me in the right direction and what can I offer in >> return? > > Right here on this list! And all you have to offer in return is > interesting questions. Actually, I've noticed that the questions usually don't even have to be very good or interesting. Ask anything. You'll get genneraly get answers to: the question you asked the question you thought you were asking the question you should have asked a few other questions only tangentially related to the above -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! We are now enjoying at total mutual interaction in gmail.com an imaginary hot tub ...