[gameprogrammer] Re: software engineering

Justin Coleman wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:20:03 +0400, Alexander Sabourenkov
> <screwdriver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>For some obscure reason, all links on the first page of google results for
>>'second system syndrome' pointed to more-or-less exact definitions.
> 
> 
> Thanks so much for your quick and accurate, if condescending, answer.
> You're so right, every time an unfamiliar term comes up I should
> immediately google for it. There's no better way to look educated in a
> job interview than to respond to an interviewer's questions with,
> "Could I borrow a web browser for a few minutes to look up the answer
> to that?"

I'm sorry you took my words as being hostile. They were but a pointer to the 
data.

> I am well aware of the various search sites available on the web. I
> chose to eschew them in favor of the opinions of people who I feel are
> more competent in the subject than myself, in order to increase my own
> level of competence in the subject. If it was just one term, yes, I'd
> look it up in google. However, being the logical person I am, I made
> the deduction that if I didn't know the meaning of *one* software
> engineering term, that it's entirely possible there might be *other*
> terms I don't know as well. Now, of course, that being the case my
> choice is reduced to A) look up each term individually, or B) ask
> people who know what they're talking about (like Bob Pendleton and
> others on this list) to recommend a book with lots of terms in it,
> that I can learn all at once, not coincidentally absorbing the
> relation between all the terms as well.

As Chris Shnurr pointed out, it is not the knowledge of facts that matters, it 
is the mastery of finding information.

Upon reading Bob's message I also wondered, what the term may mean. And I 
found out the answer, with pointers to origin, related terms, and sources of 
info in about 15 seconds, as compared to more than hour this discussion has 
already taken.

Of course if you wanted to socialize rather than have a concrete answer to a 
concrete question in minimal time, that's whole another matter.

 >
 > Perhaps you could suppress your hostility long enough to suggest a
 > book, as I originally asked?
 >

I see you've got plenty of time for writing texts this long, why haven't you 
got two seconds to cut'n'paste the term into searchbox and hit the button?


And before you take that for another grave hostility towards you,

please don't.

I sincerely apologize for that I could not keep myself from writing my first 
reply to you and suggesting using Google. I really should have left that to 
others.


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./lxnt


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