Comments on: Anti-patterns for Geek/Non-Geek interaction http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/09/26/anti-patterns-for-geeknon-geek-interaction/ Emily Post for the digital generation. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Devdas Bhagat http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/09/26/anti-patterns-for-geeknon-geek-interaction/comment-page-1/#comment-20156 Devdas Bhagat Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:45:20 +0000 http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/09/26/anti-patterns-for-geeknon-geek-interaction/#comment-20156 Mary, wrt your last point, it does happen more often than you expect, and it happens to everyone. It has nothing to do with your gender, it has everything to do with geeks trying to save themselves from being bugged by non-geeks who think they have chosen the best way to do a task. It's even an irc.freenode.net#perl factoid: xy problem They ask how to do X, but that's because they really want to do Y but think X will get them there and most of the time they are WRONG Mary, wrt your last point, it does happen more often than you expect, and it happens to everyone.

It has nothing to do with your gender, it has everything to do with geeks trying to save themselves from being bugged by non-geeks who think they have chosen the best way to do a task.

It’s even an irc.freenode.net#perl factoid: xy problem
They ask how to do X, but that’s because they really want to do Y but think X will get them there and most of the time they are WRONG

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