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06 Mar 2012, 2:16 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase

I prefer the camelBack variety ~



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06 Mar 2012, 3:14 am

camelCase wrote:
How to you tell someone to f**k off and find their own answers without hurting their feelings?


If you feel that, tell them exactly that.

Every question I ask is easily answered, or if not, there's no answer.



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06 Mar 2012, 5:52 am

hanyo wrote:
Once once on a forum I go on people got mad at me for telling a person to just Google something when they wanted to know the definition of a word. I even put a link to the page that had the definition of that word but they were still mad.

Looking it up would have been much faster than posting and asking on a somewhat slow message board.


This could have been why they got mad. As it was a slow message board, any discussion was appreciated.


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06 Mar 2012, 10:43 am

Well, sometimes they ask questions with some depth, but It has happened many times to me that I google whatever question they asked, find the page, and tell them exactly what I found. I tell them that it was in google too, so they might change their ways and use it more. While it's true that some people are just plain lazy, I've also found that many people jus don't have the inack of using relevant keywords for their search, and have a hard time finding what they want.



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06 Mar 2012, 11:49 am

TallyMan wrote:
A few reasons people may do this:

1. They are lazy.

2. They lack the ability to find and sift through the results of searches picking out what is relevant... Your search resulted in 10,918,162 matches. :P

3. Asking other people questions can be a basis for finding people with similar interests and for making new friendships. It happens often in topic related groups especially in unmoderated USENET / web forums.


4. Sometimes people just need a quick answer so they can move on with a project, already tried to find it quickly, couldn't, and don't have the time to do hours of research to find an answer someone else already knows off the top of their head and might be able to rattle off in a few seconds.


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06 Mar 2012, 5:34 pm

People like to talk, but don't really have anything to say worth talking about. Asking questions where you get to play the role of the expert is a way people relate and get to know each other while allowing the person that asks the question make the 'expert' feel self important.



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06 Mar 2012, 5:38 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
What's a camel look like?


I was going to post something outlandishly hilarious, but it was vile and juvenile.