On 04/25/2010 02:04 PM, Jeff Brower wrote: > > > Yes I know such positive results are a minority of the posts you're thinking > about. And yes it takes patience and can > be exasperating, but isn't that generally true of raising kids? They have to > learn the hard way, and someone has to > help them, before they can join the community and make their own > contributions. For me overall, the good has > outweighed the bad and I don't think my time has been wasted. > > > > > I guess that what's going on with me is that my tolerance level for the clue-resistant is going down as I get older. Turning into a right-ol curmudgeon.
But I want to make clear that I have *nothing* against newbies on this list. We all start out that way in a new endeavour (that's what makes it *new* instead of "old hat"). But the wilfully clue-resistant, the "entitled"--that's what drives me bonkers. To be clear, I *enjoy* mentoring the enthusiastic ones, the ones who "know" that they're without clue, but actually seek to learn. It's the ones who believe that the success/failure of *their* project rests not on their own experience and and competence, but on the willingness of others to give them a free ride. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
