Good rant, I've seen more than one person strongly disagree with this seemingly straightforward and uncontroversial article, which is surprising because most articles just have people commenting "nice article". The author is unequivocally pointing out habits that sound bad and giving general sound advice, I don't understand what people are disagreeing with.
The tip about the Google is spot on and I read it to be more like "Don't ask your colleague a question that you can easily find the answer to in a few minutes on Google". If the question is complicated, it's unlikely that an ad hoc chat with a colleague would provide you the answer you need, especially if you didn't do your own research first. If the question is basic, then you'd just be interrupting your colleague from their focus.
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Good rant, I've seen more than one person strongly disagree with this seemingly straightforward and uncontroversial article, which is surprising because most articles just have people commenting "nice article". The author is unequivocally pointing out habits that sound bad and giving general sound advice, I don't understand what people are disagreeing with.
The tip about the Google is spot on and I read it to be more like "Don't ask your colleague a question that you can easily find the answer to in a few minutes on Google". If the question is complicated, it's unlikely that an ad hoc chat with a colleague would provide you the answer you need, especially if you didn't do your own research first. If the question is basic, then you'd just be interrupting your colleague from their focus.