Preserved Topic: How to ask questions...

While reading through the "Hacker's Jargon" dictionary, I came across these gems of wisdom, a lot of which directly apply here, IMO:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I'd seen that a while back, very informative.

STFW



[This message has been edited by kaboi (edited 12-17-2002).]

Excellent advice.

I've had the "How Not to React Like a Loser" section bookmarked for a good few months, for the next time a critique thread goes bad.

General advice for starting threads

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http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20020928-1-004767.html

yeah, I've mentioned that page a bunch of times- and I kinda condensed it here:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum3/HTML/003044.html

...another one that would help out a lot of people here is How to be a Hacker..

trust me... the artists need to read it, too... it's some good info..

...and for the programmers of the house, read the following:

The Art Of Unix Programming

I'm halfway tru it, and it great... not just for Unix coding by the way- at least read the introduction..




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And this might be of interest:

KLB

I think we've seen a few of them through the halls

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BOFH

...these are cool...


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now *this* is pathetic...