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chadd17
7y

Mentors, take note. This is a best practice over here.

I've spent two days digging through obscure documentation trying to accomplish one of those tasks that is simple in word and complex in deed. Namely, I wanted to concatenate (not delete) near-duplicate values in Pandas before rendering the data into a graph. Two days beating my head against the wall.

One of my mentors (I'm an intern) heard about the issue, wrote in the proper line (a very specifically and archaically formatted command), and pushed it to repo without even asking for thanks. Works like a charm and he saved my rear end. What a guy.

Please, mentors, don't leave your interns hanging on problems where the only solution is shrouded in dubious documentation and magic syntax. Especially when there's a deadline involved. Let them struggle on logic flow and writing good code.

Be like this guy. You'll build the importance of teamwork and your intern will think you're a wizard.

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  • 3
    Of course, RTFM is still important. This is just for those libs where TFM is impossible to R.
  • 5
    But please interns ask quesrions id you dont umderstand it.

    Weve got about 30 interns comimg in the next few weeks. If we have presentations on techniques and people dont ask the easy things they will not get the more difficult things later.
    Asking questions doesnt make you look dumb. It makes you look interested and a good person to build on.
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