Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> > Well, finding a word and not knowing what it means is one thing. But 
> > finding a thing and not knowing what the word for it is... hell, how do 
> >  you even figure that out?? [I mean, unless you know some human beings 
> > anyway.]

> BTW, is there anything you do know besides advanced mathematics and Haskell?

  I really wouldn't want to offend him, but I just have the impression that
he makes these posts just for the attention he gets (even if he doesn't
understand that consciously).

  I know this because I have been somewhat like that in the past (and,
I hate to admit it, still sometimes am). I may have encounter something
which I knew I could very easily find with google or whatever, but
nevertheless I felt an uncontrollable urge to ask about it at some chat
or forum, just to get people to answer. Sometimes (too often, in fact) it
was something stupid and I only made myself look fool, lazy, annoying,
childish or all of those.

  I hate to say it (because it's a bit offensive, and at the same time it's
an admission of my own deficiencies), but this is more or less related to
the same psychological phenomenon small children have when they constantly
seek attention ("mom, look what I found", "mom, look what I can do", "mom,
look, look, look"). Most people grow out of it with time, but some people
(like me) may require quite a lot more time than most. The format in which
the phenomenon is actuated may change with time, but the underlying urges
are the same.

  It may not be the nicest thing to say this about someone, but sometimes
you need some slaps before you can grow out of these things. I know this
because I have experienced it.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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