A question to the people HELPING THEM!

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Let's say you come upon a cretin asking for help. The language is VB, Java, PHP, or basic C. He's too much of a dolt to use the [code] tags. His code is offensively bad and his question is easily answered by a quick google search. Add some imageboard vocabulary and lack of any punctuation whatsoever for good measure.

Why do you help people like these?

>>1
To make people like you grind your teeth.

>>3
What I don't understand is how people can be such a dog in the manger.  If you have skill in something, but don't want to help someone else with that skillset, then that's your call; it takes a really bitter person to begrudge other people for doing something nice where you shunned doing anything.

Google this "Why do you help people like these?"

>>5
Irrelevant.  Wouldn't you also be helping him by telling him to "just Google it?"

>>9
It depends upon how easily searchable the answer is. Queries that are more interesting than that will get better respect from me.

>>11
That is understandable.
But that brings me back to >>4: if you require some amount of respect to consider helping a person, then that is your call and I probably could not argue you away from that position.

Still, there is something wrong about replying "just Google it," at least in our profession, in my opinion.  I don't want to create a "look-up table" programmer; I'd rather create a "what is my program doing [here]" analytical programmer.