At 11:03 AM 6/11/2009, Mark Lunday wrote:
Actually, a better approach might be to answer the question and also include a reference to the location. The asker then sees a way to look that he or she may not know. Also avoids making incorrect assumptions. I see this method used a lot on technical mailing lists.
This way, we "teach others to fish for themselves."
Agree. I try and give the answer, then an explanation for the answer (i.e. any underlying theory, etc), and a reference they can read up in their own time. Quite a few people I've done that with end up going off on their own and tinkering. :)
Not quite satellites, but one guy that needed me to fix an IRLP reflector of his, because he was installing some stuff I had developed on it. I didn't have a lot of time, so over time, I have him little bits on what these scripts actually did, and also determined that he was trying to do something for which they weren't designed. Eventually, he was able to use the information I gave to fix his problem (and do something fairly advanced that I had never gotten around to doing myself :) ).
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