At 2/5/13 12:27 PM, Luis wrote:
So my thought is, does that happen on the programming side at all? Or is that side very silo-oriented? I guess if anything, this particular lounge is a good testament of programmers still keeping a pulse on things even if you arent actively even using flash or in the thick of the portal/etc.
programmers in general are usually very competitive when it comes to programming itself, and as such we tend to try to 1-up eachother constantly (which helps the people who aren't new but still have a lot to learn) - however, we recognize when people are new, and most of us try to help out as much as possible.
personally, I don't think of myself as an excellent teacher (I tend to get frustrated and annoyed fairly easily. Stupidity and willful ignorance are my buttons, there) but I do what I can. I know that there are quite a few others with much more tolerance than I helping people to grow on a more personal level (I learned OOP basics via FlashDevelop and AS3 from MintPaw)
though we do try to go outside every now and again, we also need to keep up with the pace of technology and thus we usually have our hands full with jobs, projects, and learning; simply put: we don't get out much, so you don't tend to see us being social butterflies.
this is all my perspective, though, so it's mostly opinion-based.