Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

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Date	2014-04-09 03:18 +1000
Subject	Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.9031.1396977509.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:38:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>>>> -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your
>>>> questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you.
>>>
>>> A utopia very few will ever find.
>>
>> In corporate, yes, it's rare. But it's a lot less rare in open source
>> projects. I could go into my theories as to why, but it'd make for a
>> long post.
>
> http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-shop-politics/

Yeah, that goes into several of the reasons I would have been saying.

It also has some great quotes.
"""
C++ exists because someone had a fever dream in which these two
classes of vehicles got mixed up and thought, “I’m going to put wings
on a [bleep] tank”.
"""

ChrisA

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Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 01:38 +1000
  Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-08 16:44 +0000
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-04-08 13:16 -0400
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 03:18 +1000
      Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? pecore@pascolo.net - 2014-04-08 19:45 +0200
        Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 03:58 +1000
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? James Brewer <james@brwr.org> - 2014-04-08 12:45 -0700
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-04-09 00:29 -0400

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