I’m an expert and I find it very frustrating when I don’t find some example code front and centre. It might not reveal the detail, but it sets the scene quickly and lets me know what sort of a thing I’m dealing with.
So you say, but I think _I'm_ an expert too, and I wasn't frustrated in the slightest. Maybe you're just not an expert in this space. Did you consider that?
Of course it would be nice if everyone communicated to us in our preferred way, but I think making the reader work a little bit before they have a conversation is a good way to figure out if you're dealing with an expert or not, because an expert actually worth talking to about your ideas will not find it to be too much work to understand them
Students can especially benefit from this advice, because they are still too new to be able to recognise experts from the substance of their words
"I don't like having my time wasted" does not imply anything about one's skill in a field.
It's not 1995. Most of the internet is noise, and if you're showcasing something it's good form to immediately show your readers what actually is, and why they may or may not care about it.
Not showing the syntax of a programming language on the homepage of a programming language is poor communication. If you're OK with that - great, but not valuing your time and willingness to have it wasted in no way implies that you're an "expert".
geocar|5 days ago
So you say, but I think _I'm_ an expert too, and I wasn't frustrated in the slightest. Maybe you're just not an expert in this space. Did you consider that?
Of course it would be nice if everyone communicated to us in our preferred way, but I think making the reader work a little bit before they have a conversation is a good way to figure out if you're dealing with an expert or not, because an expert actually worth talking to about your ideas will not find it to be too much work to understand them
Students can especially benefit from this advice, because they are still too new to be able to recognise experts from the substance of their words
nananana9|5 days ago
It's not 1995. Most of the internet is noise, and if you're showcasing something it's good form to immediately show your readers what actually is, and why they may or may not care about it.
Not showing the syntax of a programming language on the homepage of a programming language is poor communication. If you're OK with that - great, but not valuing your time and willingness to have it wasted in no way implies that you're an "expert".