[nhnifong]

The Truth really doesn't hurt! well said. I am an intern at an organization where everyone is about two decades older than me, and there is a lot I don't know. They don't know what they can expect me to know, and I don't know what they know. I send piles of questions out to anyone who has some spare time and have not once been chastised in return.

[arethuza]

I remember one place where one guy - who was very experienced and a generally awesome developer had a rather unpleasant (i.e. plain rude) manner when asked worked questions even though he was generally quite pleasant about non-work topics.

He eventually admitted he did it on purpose so that people would explore every other solution to a problem before giving up and asking him (inevitably he would almost instantly know the answer - he was that kind of guy).