>The StackOverflow Reflex, where the person responding doesn't believe you've actually explored other solutions sufficiently because in their experience the vast majority of the time the person asking for help hasn't actually explored other solutions effectively.
Heh. Encountered this just the other day. I asked a question about how come an ugly kludge was faster in Python for doing a particular task, and mentioned that I had tested this using timeit and perf.
I got a bunch of answers back that assumed I was doing something stupid that I didn't really need to do. Needless to say, the code samples they posted all ran 5-10 times slower than my kludge, which means they hadn't even tested them.
Heh. Encountered this just the other day. I asked a question about how come an ugly kludge was faster in Python for doing a particular task, and mentioned that I had tested this using timeit and perf.
I got a bunch of answers back that assumed I was doing something stupid that I didn't really need to do. Needless to say, the code samples they posted all ran 5-10 times slower than my kludge, which means they hadn't even tested them.