At 09:25 AM 4/23/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I have wondered about this as well.  School mentality teaches us to work
>alone, independantly, and not to collaborate.  This is absolutely the most
>inefficient way to get anything done, and mostly anything I have been paid
>to do was a collaboration on some level.  Only my hobby projects are done
>alone, and I don't even do that any more.
>
>-- Lawrence Lile

Of course, Lawrence, you must realize you are "preaching to the choir".

The piclist is a good example of the opposite of working alone.  Most of us
come here to solve problems in a group setting - and it works quite well!

I solved a puzzling problem yesterday by asking "What would the piclist
say?"  The answer came to me that the piclist would say to watch out for
R-M-W instructions.  A quick re-write to use a shadow register to read some
input pins fixed my buggy program.

In the grand scheme of things, you are very correct about collaborating.
Two or more people will always have different ways of viewing a problem and
thus have different ways of solving the problem.  Just talking things over
now and then helps to keep fresh ideas coming in.

Tom

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