Re: Useless whinging about rude/clueless requests for help...

On Mar 29, 11:09 am, Grant Edwards <gra...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't know why I let it annoy me, but it does. I regularly
get emails requesting help (some in a very demanding tone) from
people who are apparently utterly clueless and incompetent.
....snip...
There. I know that's not going to change anything, but I feel
better.

I'm glad you feel better. I know what you mean, I get them too. They
are not always quite so rude, but it can be odd that they write such
vague descriptions and often are asking for code!

Once I was asked rather politely about 1-wire driver code. I ended up
providing it just because I got tired of thinking that evey snippit of
code written needs to be considered a precious gem and every penny
needs to be extracted from it.

It is not infrequent that I reply to these messages with some amount
of help. But I try to distinguish the ones that seem to be looking
for someone to do their homework rather than actual requests for
help.

I am also on the other end of these requests at times. Of course I
normally do that here or in a Yahoo group, not by direct email. When
I am starting out in a new area, I like to get some helpful advice on
the best places to read rather than to just start reading data sheets
and searching groups. But I guess you would prefer that to direct
emails.

Right now I am trying to come up the learning curve on the ARM9/11
processors so that I know them as well as I know the ARM7 parts. Not
so much the details of the instruction sets, etc; but more about what
is out there and what they are good for. I may prepare an ARM9/11
compilation like the ARM7 MCU data I put up at www.gnuarm.com.

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