From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] non-english keyboard? From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1078856477.6146.470.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:21:18 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2723734e-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > I would appreciate less rude to attitude, Andrey. When > > I ask something, it is because I have a good reason too. Now, to be pedantic, Andrey was not "rude": "terse", maybe "impolite", but not actually "rude". > I admit to finding your 'ask questions first' attitude a tad irritating, Ditto. If we spend all our time answering questions, we'll _never_ get the USB/hotplug/wifi/PDP11 ... support finished:-). > but that is, quite likely, completely my fault No ... For example, when I was training/mentoring people, I forced them to find as much information as possible independently. Apart from (obviously) trying to foster a hunger for knowledge and make them more independent, there is also an important psychological issue: information which is given to you is less permanently embedded in your memory than information which takes an effort to find. (No, I can't back this up experimentally or theoretically, but I'd bet money on it). Of course, this also eventually lessens your own workload, so you can concentrate on other things! Cheers, Dave.