> It's not like people are personally asking icey or you dozens of questions a day.
On here, no, but in real life, yes, I get asked dozens of questions a day people could easily answer themselves if they just Googled. There's a reason programmers start getting annoyed with people being lazy; they're making you do their thinking for them and you get sick of it.
> I think most people are like that. Why be snarky about it?
Because one gets tired of doing other people's thinking for them when they're capable of doing it themselves.
> and I still occasionally ask a question without thinking to google it.
That's the problem, that happens to me constantly by people who just don't think; it's rude; your process should start with Google before bugging someone else who's just going to Google anyway.
That is extremely uncompromising. Somebody asking the air a stupid question is always refusing to think for themselves? You're assuming unwillingness from the equivalent of a brainfart.
Nobody was even asking you specifically. Is it really easier to call people names than to just move on to read other stuff?
..bugging someone else who's just going to Google anyway
No, people are often asking if someone knows the answer off the top of their head.
Anyways, this thread has outlived its usefulness. Over and out.
I think the problem, as you've demonstrated with your flippant comment lies with this new 'internet culture' (tied in with anonymity on the internet) which has led to the development of certain attitudes and changes in social norms and 'values'.
For instance, if you were standing next to someone, and you asked them a question, it would not be the social norm to say "google it" even if you knew the answer.
Either that, or the internet just gives the idiots that would say "google it" if you spoke to them in person and they knew the answer, a platform for themselves, when in real life they'd have no friends/get ignored/get punched in the face.
On here, no, but in real life, yes, I get asked dozens of questions a day people could easily answer themselves if they just Googled. There's a reason programmers start getting annoyed with people being lazy; they're making you do their thinking for them and you get sick of it.
> I think most people are like that. Why be snarky about it?
Because one gets tired of doing other people's thinking for them when they're capable of doing it themselves.
> and I still occasionally ask a question without thinking to google it.
That's the problem, that happens to me constantly by people who just don't think; it's rude; your process should start with Google before bugging someone else who's just going to Google anyway.