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Can you get me Hermione's autograph? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not since the court order 
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Ex public school eh? We had tables like that, and the names of all those ex pupils who had died fighting for the 'father land'.
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That's not my school, that was at uni.
I am ex public school though, but only very technically, you'd be hard pushed to tell if you actually spoke to me. The school did have an organ with "dulce et decorum est... " on it. This being the north it didn't make much sense to me, dying for a country that effectively ends 200 mile south of here doesn't seem very sweet or proper.
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So many posts in QA : 'I am studying in nth year of :GodKnowsWhatDoesItMean: , I have selected to make :crap: as my final year project. Would you please help me screw it some more?'
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
modified 6-Feb-15 7:05am.
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I don't know where you stand but I think everyone deserves some help. Some people think CP does not help with homework problems and that I do not understand. We shouldn't do everything for them but there's no reason to not help them.
I see no issue with helping people that provide enough info to be able to help them. None of us were born knowing everything and not everyone is as good as we are at finding information on their own.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There is quite a wide gap between helping someone with their code, and writing it for them. I'm happy to help anyone who can show that they are trying, but I'm not going to write their project for them. And in the latter case I don't believe it helps them in the long run.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I don't believe it helps them in the long run
Indeed, it teaches them to rely on other people to do their work for them.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: it teaches them to rely on other people to do their work for them.
To be a manager in other words. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs Jim<</xml>
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Which is why we deride them and complain bitterly about their lack of initiative.
Today, clueless hack. Tomorrow, I would like you to meet your new department manager".
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Today, clueless hack. Tomorrow, I would like you to meet your new department manager".
Unfortunately in over 40 years in the industry that is the rule rather than the exception. 
I have had only three good managers in all that time.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs Jim<</xml>
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Ok. So did you mean we should help this guy[^]??
I should be agree to Richard. Apart from that, if someone is not able to even start coding, i don't think he or she deserves to be a software professional.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Rohan Leuva wrote: So did you mean we should help this guy[^]??
Of course. Why wouldn't you? Don't participate in this site if you think someone does not deserve help. Everyone deserves help. Sometimes that help might be to suggest they read a book or a tutorial, but everyone deserves help.
Rohan Leuva wrote: if someone is not able to even start coding, i don't think he or she deserves to be a software professional.
I don't understand that attitude. Every single software professional had a point in their life where they couldn't even start coding. We all had to learn.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Don't participate in this site if you think someone does not deserve help
I don't think this statement make sense in context of this post. If you are not mature enough to discuss something,ignore it. Why to make something personal?
RyanDev wrote: I don't understand that attitude.
This is not something related to attitude, its all about one's way of thinking.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Rohan Leuva wrote: Why to make something personal?
I think you misunderstood.
My point is everyone deserves some help. If you feel that people don't deserve help then I don't think you should participate here.
Rohan Leuva wrote: This is not something related to attitude, its all about one's way of thinking.
Yes, you're saying the same thing.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: everyone deserves some help
Asking someone to read Tutorial is help? I don't think so. Its totally a different thing to point some one in a right direction by suggesting some useful things.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Rohan Leuva wrote: Asking someone to read Tutorial is help? I don't think so.
I disagree. Sometimes the best answer is to refer them to do some study on their own.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Rohan Leuva wrote: if someone is not able to even start coding, i don't think he or she deserves to be a software professional.
You have never seen some of the managers I have worked with.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs Jim<</xml>
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I'm 100% with you on this one - the grand sum of information the poster gives to help us to help him with is problem is:
"how to do thishow do i create a page in html that allows a user to enter a username and password by javascript"
This is not someone interested in learning, this is sheer laziness 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Help is one thing: sitting on your thumb and getting others to do it all for you is another.
I help beginners - if they have tried and are stuck. But when it's clear they haven't bothered to start engaging their brain then the best help you can give is to say "No. At least try to do it yourself."
Doing anything else means that they might even pass their course without ever writing code or having a clue how to debug it when they do find some on the internet. And some of them do seem pretty dedicated to managing exactly that...
And the next thing you know, they read a couple of "interview questions" articles and bluff their way into a job working at the desk next to you. Are you going to like that? Especially if they are earning much the same as you for knowing a total of elephant all. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It sounds like we agree. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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What if he answers the question himself then? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: sitting on your thumb and getting others to do it all for you is another.
That is called skill which every programmer needs. Damn why do I lack it
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Asking for help on a sticking point is one thing, but asking for help in picking a project topic tells me the person should do just enough to pass the class, and pick another vocation that doesn't involve freedom of thought. A programmer has to be able to think on his feet.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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