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Being a vetran of online communities...
localBBS's (first time I connected was with a 300 BAUD - i think) to compuserve...to todays full fledged phpBB...
Programming communities are so full of ego...
no other communities are so dedicated to being the best...bodybuilding for instance...which you would think would be full of ego...surpisingly aint bad at all...in fact very encouraging if anything...I figure cuz it very obvious who the best is...
Unfortunately...most of the winners are usually predisposed to have great bodies...
Back to programming...
Iam guilty myself of crowing about my skillset...perhaps for good reason...i've spent a majority of my life dedicated to learning everything there is to know about computers (programming,hardware,security,etc...)
However...the old adage "the more you know, the more you realize the less you know" really starts to hit home...
No matter how long i've been at this bit...i'll never be a master at everything...at best I'll become an expert at things i enjoy...and reach only novice level at others...
The point is...doesnt anyone else realize this???
Comparing 42 years of programming experince against 6 years is rediculous...
Yes 42 years is a long time...and I imagine comes with a vast amount of knowledge...
Thing is...in high tech...1 year is a huge time span...much can change...
Besides if you spend 20 years writting COBOL and never bothering to learn anything else...thats alot of wasted time...however most programmers are prretty good at adapting to new technologies...so thats not likely the case, but still...
My point...
I don't usually brag or boast...i'm actually pretty laid back...
But when I ask questions...i find some replies be-littling...which is maybe justifed...cuz im sure this site is crawling with newbies...but still...to much detail if not asked for isn't always a good thing...
For instance...one reply I received went something like...
More than half my life programming...and I don't know what C# is???When I coded in .net it was in C# which is a C based language
Besides...its not really based on C at all...it borrows from C's syntax...other than that there is very little in common...
Needless to say this was annoying...even for a laid back dude like me...I can only take so much
I should note that this happens not only here but many other forums which i frequent...
Anyways can't we all just get along???
Without trying to out do each other? Sure competition is a good thing, but make it formal so there is no she said/he said BS and there is a distinct winner
With many years experience behind me in just about every avenue of computers...I realize i'm not the best...there is always going to be someone better at something than me...example:
I cannot say ihave received a plethora of positive replies here, but...there have been two occasions i have...
d11wtq assisted me in regex (i have little interest but a decent understanding) in fact wrote the whole thing for me...and helped me with a problem when I was using preg_ instead of ereg_ or the other way around...the point...his reply didn't belittle, nor did he elaborate to the point of bordem, etc...
Roja although slightly demeaning...was atleast convincing with his statement:
Although admittedly...i'm not going to jump the band wagon and drop tables for CSS(I'd have to see my website done in CSS and if it worked - then i'd start using CSS)...his point IMHO was 100% accurate and not worth arging any moreIts important to make a clean distinction here. Tables themselves are not evil. For displaying *tabular data*, tables are the right choice. Tables for LAYOUT, however, is non-ideal. Most high-end developers left tables for layout behind years ago.
My point...clearly these two have a better understanding of CSS and regex than I do...and I have no problems admitting that so long as you prove it...effectively...not just based on something you read or heard from someone else...
Hope I made sense...i'm looped on T3's
Cheers