Re: Where to look things up
> But one skill I have: when I don't know the answer, the ability to scout
> around and find a solution. This may be scouting manual pages, greping
> source code for suspect strings, just nosing around for an answer. I hope
> you are instilling that into your classes.
Got that too. I usually get assigned to look things up for certain problems at work. Of course these people sometimes don't appreciate that this can take some time occasionally. :-)
Sometimes I even surprise myself with what I can find with little to no concrete starting information. I had vague memories of "Battle of the Planets" from when I was young. I couldn't remember the names of the show, characters and even any plot points. I could just remember certain images like the ship and some of the character visuals. It's something that has bothered me for years until I finally sat down and went looking for it. Thirty minutes later I had the information on the series from starting with just the few visual image descriptions as search criteria.
