Re:Ask HN: Are there any good hacker mentors out there?
by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @12:01PM
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I'm amazed that no one has suggested the most obvious answer: a lot of developers are just plain rude!
Even if you don't want to help someone, there's a polite way of wording it. Unfortunately a lot of people in the SW dev community haven't figured that out yet.
@Rayzar:
They're under no obligation to help you, but at the same time they don't need to be unfriendly about it either.
Even if you don't want to help someone, there's a polite way of wording it. Unfortunately a lot of people in the SW dev community haven't figured that out yet.
@Rayzar: They're under no obligation to help you, but at the same time they don't need to be unfriendly about it either.