Ignorance and ability are not as correlated as people like to think they are.
thank god there are people who understand that. It's amazing to me the number of people who equate the two. Equally ridiculous is the tendency of programmers to spew advice such as "Read the fucking wiki (or documentation)". That really doesnt help newbs who are just barely figuring out the right way to Google things. The thing about being able to find some instructions on how to do X is that it's predicated on actually knowing that instructions are out there somewhere.
Tangential, but I think that one of the greatest gifts of experience and age (not that I'm old, I'm 33 - just not a kid anymore) is a lot of exposure to things I know nothing about. I now know just enough to be able to google lots of different things well, and better, have learned how to discover more things I know nothing about. It's a skill we (humanity) should spend more time developing in youngsters - being a specialist is useful and great, but being a specialist who knows of other specialties is even better, because then it becomes easier to link knowledge sets into awesome solutions.
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thank god there are people who understand that. It's amazing to me the number of people who equate the two. Equally ridiculous is the tendency of programmers to spew advice such as "Read the fucking wiki (or documentation)". That really doesnt help newbs who are just barely figuring out the right way to Google things. The thing about being able to find some instructions on how to do X is that it's predicated on actually knowing that instructions are out there somewhere.
Tangential, but I think that one of the greatest gifts of experience and age (not that I'm old, I'm 33 - just not a kid anymore) is a lot of exposure to things I know nothing about. I now know just enough to be able to google lots of different things well, and better, have learned how to discover more things I know nothing about. It's a skill we (humanity) should spend more time developing in youngsters - being a specialist is useful and great, but being a specialist who knows of other specialties is even better, because then it becomes easier to link knowledge sets into awesome solutions.