On 08-04-14 15:58, alister wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:47:12 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2014-04-08, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:07 PM, James Brewer <ja...@brwr.org> 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 > I would agree with 1 & 4, but 2 & 3 only happen if you are really lucky > :-)
No wonder, because when they do happen, chances are someone will complain about that person not answering the question actually asked. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list