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Scott Ellsworth





PostPosted: 2006-4-18 5:41:00 Top

java-programmer, What is joone? In article <4440bf8d$0$658$email***@***.com>,
"Chris Uppal" <email***@***.com> wrote:

> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>
> > I like this approach because it relieves posters of any need to judge
> > whether a question is an attempt to cheat or not. [...] If they are
> > trying to cheat, they get lots of information that is useless to them.
>
> Which does rather mean that you've wasted your own time. The usual tension
> between generosity and scepticism...

Yes and no - even if the original poster is a cheater type, a good
question might apply to others as well.

> (And it also depends on your guessing correctly about whether the questioner
> /ought/ be asking for hints only -- if a working programmer looking for, say,
> a
> Skip List package, was referred only to the original paper (very readable,
> btw), and given a couple of implementation hints, then they would be
> justifiably disappointed.)

Also true, but if they are such, they will come back to the well if they
get good, but insufficient, information.

Scott

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Scott Ellsworth
email***@***.com
Java and database consulting for the life sciences
 
Scott Ellsworth





PostPosted: 2006-4-18 5:41:00 Top

java-programmer >> What is joone? In article <4440bf8d$0$658$email***@***.com>,
"Chris Uppal" <email***@***.com> wrote:

> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>
> > I like this approach because it relieves posters of any need to judge
> > whether a question is an attempt to cheat or not. [...] If they are
> > trying to cheat, they get lots of information that is useless to them.
>
> Which does rather mean that you've wasted your own time. The usual tension
> between generosity and scepticism...

Yes and no - even if the original poster is a cheater type, a good
question might apply to others as well.

> (And it also depends on your guessing correctly about whether the questioner
> /ought/ be asking for hints only -- if a working programmer looking for, say,
> a
> Skip List package, was referred only to the original paper (very readable,
> btw), and given a couple of implementation hints, then they would be
> justifiably disappointed.)

Also true, but if they are such, they will come back to the well if they
get good, but insufficient, information.

Scott

--
Scott Ellsworth
email***@***.com
Java and database consulting for the life sciences