From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-05-11T05:00:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Posting Culture

On 10.05.2008 20:09, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> Robert Dober wrote:

> Hi Roberts (taking a bit of liberty here),

:-)  At least, we're nearly neighbors - at least in a global dimension 
the few 100 kilometers between us are negligible. :)

> I see this as a sign that Ruby is picking up and gaining traction in 
> other places.  There was a time when there were a lot of people who were 
> discovering Ruby on their own free will and were looking at documents 
> (online or offline) and trying out different things.  As it gains 
> traction, it approaches the point where people are having Ruby thrust on 
> them (possibly more Rails than Ruby) either due to preference of people 
> further up in the food chain or due to clients (specially in the case of 
> outsourced projects).  In such cases, it's likely that the engineer is 
> just venting frustration about the language on a forum cos it's 
> something they werem't born to, or achieved - it was thrust on them.

That's an interesting theory - and it may well be the case.  I am not 
sure though whether this is the explanation for what I notice.  It's 
usually a good idea to present what one had attempted already - if only 
to avoid solutions that the poster has tried already, but also to 
demonstrate the own motivation to find a solution oneself.  I frequently 
see this missing from questions and in those cases I get the impression 
that someone is just plain lazy and does not bother to invest minimal 
effort to find a solution.  Whether this is actually the case, obviously 
the reader cannot know.  If I would go on I would essentially repeat 
what others have compiled already [1], so I'll stop here.

Kind regards

	robert

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html