Posted by Ivan Marsh on 07/16/07 21:50

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:19:21 -0500, Nooze Goy wrote:

> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:28:58 -0500, Nooze Goy wrote:
>>
>>> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:06:50 -0500, Nooze Goy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Michael Vilain wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hire a college student to write this application. You're in over
>>>>>> your head.
>>>>> Why bother?
>>>> Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Tell a man to hire someone
>>>> else to fish for him and... oh, never mind.
>>> Puh-leeeze... when a man tells you he's learning to fish and asks for
>>> suggestions on catching sea bass, there's not much point in telling
>>> him to hire a fisherman. And there's not much evidence of grace in
>>> insulting him while at it...
>>
>> That was the point I was attempting to make.
>>
>> "Outsource your own job" isn't very valuable advice.
>
> Yah, I got it - I apologize if it appeared that I was taking a poke at
> =you= with my reply... was just expanding on it a bit, because it was -
> or seemed to me to be - beyond pointless, in the same vein as the "RTFM"
> responses.

RTFM is a perfectly valid response when it's obvious that the poster
hasn't done the bare minimum of research on the technology they're working
with. Don't even try, however, is not.

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