>>Hi Thomas,
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>>I don't think this is correct or necessary. I think there are two issues here; (1) there is a language barrier, not all participants are native English speaking,
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>myself among them ;-)
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>(2) a cultural barrier; Harsh is asking in a very polite way and with words and phrases common to that part of the world.
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>said myself it might be "curried translation" sounding wrong to german beer washed ears ;-)
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>>His "mistake", if I can call it that, is only asking complicated questions, in a field he is not trained in or has acquired enough experience in, and perhaps he needs to consider contracting a mentor or consultant to help him.
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>Sorry, the questions are complicated only because too much of his assumptions are warped in. Scaling out working on milions of files is hardly a new problem.
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>>We were all newbies once :)
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>But we learned a bit during our first year ;-)

lol :) I shudder when thinking of the "code" I wrote in the first 10 years, never mind the first year :)