On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > On 2010-09-21, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I use them when I want to conceal the target of the link. Usually here >> that just means its a letmegooglethatforyou.com link, which I find >> more amusing than is probably healthy. > > I thought the idea was funny at first. > > Then I posted a question on an IRC channel. I had done a ton of searching > already, and I started by explaining the top three near-solutions I'd found > and why each of them wasn't actually a solution to my problem. And someone > handed me a URL... which was to lmgtfy on the first search terms I tried. > > And this caused me to realize just how amazingly insulting that can be when > done to someone who *did* already do the research. > > While certainly there's plenty of people who didn't do their own searching, > there's also a fair number who are asking a question because they DID try > searching and there was some problem with one or more of the answers.
It's a joke. Admittedly it's a bit pointed, but it's a joke nonetheless, and it does at least provide what I consider to be two valuable pieces of information: that you should have googled this before asking, and what you should have googled for. If I miss and you've done your homework already, well, at least you get the smug satisfaction of knowing that I was too stupid to understand your question. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
