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| 19 Jul 2013 11:18 PM |
using google on the job to fix your tech related issues.
1) are you allowed 2) is it frowned upon 3) do you do it
i ask because once an IT guy at my school asked me how to do something, and I said I dunno, google it, and he called me a smart-[inappropriate word] |
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Nikilis
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| 19 Jul 2013 11:26 PM |
| I would avoid having to rely on it heavily but most times its probably fine for like simple things. I don't work for any technical job though, just going off of instinct. |
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Oysi
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| 19 Jul 2013 11:31 PM |
| Now we just need to fill this page of answers coming from people without tech jobs. |
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Oysi
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| 20 Jul 2013 12:38 AM |
@Oysi
It's just that people don't understand anything about Wikipedia. They don't understand why it is better than every single other encyclopedia.
If anything, I'd rather rely on Wikipedia than on a paper encyclopedia because Wikipedia is up-to-date and neutral. Oh, and it has references. Using an up-to-date encyclopedia is important: I want information that is right *now*, not that was right 30 years ago. I also want information that isn't biased, and neutrality is one of the most important ideas of Wikipedia, which is not exactly the case of all other encyclopedias. Finally, it has references, and that is pretty important. Furthermore, there are many cases where neutrality and reliability are just irrelevant. If I just want to know what characters there are in an Unicode chart, I might as well go to Wikipedia: it's not like the information there is going to be unreliable. It's not like someone is going to change the tables so that the information they contain is wrong. I mean, who would even care about doing a such thing? If I just want to know more about how a specific database system works, let's say MongoDB, I have no reason to not go to Wikipedia because it's not like the information there is going to be unreliable. In fact, going somewhere else than on Wikipedia would be a bad idea: often, websites about projects or companies will be very biased, not really contain useful information, be outdated, etc. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is generally always up-to-date, and, more important, gives information. What I want is information. I often don't care about all the rest, and, in these cases, I go to Wikipedia because it has information. And that information is reliable because there is no reason for it to not be reliable.
Furthermore, many people really think that people insert false information in Wikipedia. Sure, it happens, but not often. 99.9% of vandals just completely erase all the contents of a page, which is undone 2 seconds after by a bot, or replace all a page's content by "[ insert inappropriate words here ]", which, again, is undone 2 seconds after by a bot. There are extreme cases where no bot detects it and it is reverted 5 minutes after by a contributor. Or there are cases where people really insert false information but it is removed 2 days after because there was no reference. And then people say that Wikipedia is not reliable. For sure, it is more reliable than random blogs on the Internet where there are no bots or contributors to remove nonsense. |
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| 20 Jul 2013 12:51 AM |
| In most industries, using Google is the correct answer. |
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| 20 Jul 2013 01:10 AM |
| I was just making a joke about the page 2 thing. Google is my best friend, as is Wikipedia. It's a shame that most schools disallow Wikipedia for research, I always find the best information there, although I tend to go off on a tangent reading a chain of pages if something sounds interesting. :| |
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Nikilis
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| 20 Jul 2013 08:32 AM |
| Schools haven't accepted the fact that there is no use for researching anything without using wikipedia (unless it's not on Wikipedia (which is rare)) |
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zars15
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| 20 Jul 2013 08:42 AM |
| Uhm, that guy who called a smartblox is one real dumbblox... On google you can find some naic code snippets, and change them to fit your code. It's just like we all learned from free models, to get good at Lua. |
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:21 AM |
| Schools dont want you to use wikipedia so that you learn to research using other sources, so that you can contribute to wikipedia. |
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blocco
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:22 AM |
lolwut
My teachers always said wikipedia was incredible, in the most literal meaning of the word. |
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Nikilis
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:36 AM |
> Schools dont want you to use wikipedia so that you learn to research using other sources, so that you can contribute to wikipedia.
Never thought about it that way. |
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zars15
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:38 AM |
| Well people do all the research for you on wikipeadia, that's why schools would like to avoid using it. To teach em kids how to do a real research. |
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Nikilis
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:40 AM |
> To teach em kids how to do a real research.
Why though? |
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zars15
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:41 AM |
| Idk, makes u smart I guess. Well actually look at live example... All those kids that goes on scripting helpers/scripters asking something like "How does one make [random crap]". They haven't even tried to research it properly. |
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Nikilis
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:50 AM |
| Lol, but that's what wikis are for. |
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zars15
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| 20 Jul 2013 10:51 AM |
| Well exactly what is going on. When they can't find anything on wiki, they dunno what to do, so they ask other people, instead of researching free models or searching for other similar forum posts. |
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| 20 Jul 2013 02:34 PM |
| Lol my teachers think because its open to public editing that its a completely unreliable source. They pretty much haven't bothered to learn much about Wikipedia. |
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