Re:How to ask good questions
by jwatte on Sunday January 01, 2017 @04:24AM
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The best place to ask questions for me is the internet.
It is regularly so hostile and rules lawyerly that I have to collect everything I know about the problem into the post, and pre-empt every objection with an existing fact.
And, once I do that, I'm almost always close enough to the solution that I don't need to press "post." Just typing what I know into the Stack Overflow window, and imagining all the objections to the question, structures my question to the point of finding the answer!
It is regularly so hostile and rules lawyerly that I have to collect everything I know about the problem into the post, and pre-empt every objection with an existing fact.
And, once I do that, I'm almost always close enough to the solution that I don't need to press "post." Just typing what I know into the Stack Overflow window, and imagining all the objections to the question, structures my question to the point of finding the answer!