now you met the one who does not. Welcome to real world.
Why you think that if someone posts question then that question is perfect and should be answered right away? Robby is pointing out that there's a problem with the question itself. No need to go down to answer, the question itself is wrong or inappropriate here in this chat. Why not to learn from this? Why not to learn to ask smart questions?
Let me explain by example.
Imagine that newbie comes to the experienced craftsman with a shovel. And asks to teach him the art of woodcarving with it. Experienced one sais that newbie should go first learn about instruments used in this art and that information is easily accessible. His question is bad, shovel+woodcarving is stupid, question is stupid. He needs to understand instruments available and their purpose first. He's lazy because he didn't put any effort in research. But newbie gets offended and starts saying something like "how dare you", "deal with your attitude" and so on.
Those people who have patience explaining something to lazy people are probably paid for that. Otherwise they quickly get bored of doing so. Personally I'm starting.
"There's no need for that, keep it to yourself..." and what about applying the same principle to those who gets offended by google/ddg search? He asks question, he gets the answer, he doesn't like the answer and starts spitting venom? Why the one who answers should be patient? Why the one who receives the answer he doesn't like or expect should not be patient and "keep it to himself"?
"Imagine working with someone like this, every time you're stuck at something at work" - I would be happy to work with Robby. I wouldn't like to receive help from babysitters, but from great experts. And if someone said me that I did a stupid mistake and should google for "xxx technology" then I would hear them and not started to argue. Again, discussion with such people is great - if he knows for sure that team is going the wrong way with using some tech/approach/method then he would not be silent. Every time I stuck at something at work I google, ask colleagues and HEAR them. Imagine that you came to super-duper-senior dev and asked for help, received an answer (for example he pointed you at book+author to read about it) and started arguing... Damn, that's so stupid that I can't even imagine.
Good for you if you support that, no need to discuss more about it
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