[Tutor] OT (but relevant): Contrasting articles on asking good questions.

[Mats Wichmann]

On April 4, 2021 6:29:54 PM MDT, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
>I think most people have at least scanned this article:
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>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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>by Eric Raymond.
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>But I just read the following article:
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>https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/
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>by Julia Evans, and, I must say, I found it more helpful in its tone
>and
>content.  Perhaps a data point for why increasing diversity amongst
>programmers is important?
>
>Just stirring the pot...  ~(:>))

naah, there's not really much difference here. the goal isn't necessarily to ask questions that are easy to answer, what if your question exposes something complicated? that's absolutely fine, the goal is to not ask questions that can't be answered at all because so much context is missing. "I'm unable to Foo. Tell me how to fix it."
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