I played with Lego blocks for at least 12 years of my childhood and all I knew they came from Toy-R-Us.
Your comment was the first I ever heard that they were from Denmark. You overestimate how many people know where Lego comes from...
I use wikipedia when confronted with some concept that I don't know. I get a summary from wikipedia. In that mode, it really doesn't matter if they have someone's birthday exactly right. I am not on a fact-checking mission, I need an overview. Wikipedia does that VERY well.
If I wanted to do hard-core research, I would probably use other tools or sites dedicated to the topic. I expect wikipedia to carry general knowledge, not incredibly detailed information.
What an encyclopedia means to me, versus what it means to him are obviously totally different.
How likely is it that most everyone in the world is incompetent, except you? Maybe there is something more subtle going on and you're missing it.
For example, a dev writes lousy code. Calling him incompetent assumes he intended to write good code and failed. What if he was only trying to get paid and succeeded? Is he incompetent because you bought the facade? Many folks are simply trying to survive and are doing quite well.
You may have spent most of your life judging things at face value, but the world is actually much more complex.
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I played with Lego blocks for at least 12 years of my childhood and all I knew they came from Toy-R-Us. Your comment was the first I ever heard that they were from Denmark. You overestimate how many people know where Lego comes from...
I use wikipedia when confronted with some concept that I don't know. I get a summary from wikipedia. In that mode, it really doesn't matter if they have someone's birthday exactly right. I am not on a fact-checking mission, I need an overview. Wikipedia does that VERY well. If I wanted to do hard-core research, I would probably use other tools or sites dedicated to the topic. I expect wikipedia to carry general knowledge, not incredibly detailed information. What an encyclopedia means to me, versus what it means to him are obviously totally different.
How likely is it that most everyone in the world is incompetent, except you? Maybe there is something more subtle going on and you're missing it.
For example, a dev writes lousy code. Calling him incompetent assumes he intended to write good code and failed. What if he was only trying to get paid and succeeded? Is he incompetent because you bought the facade? Many folks are simply trying to survive and are doing quite well.
You may have spent most of your life judging things at face value, but the world is actually much more complex.