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"I literally copy-paste the middot every time. Who has a middot key?"

I did too, until I found.

http://middot.net/

I'm sorry, I was trying to be funny. I really found your points valid, and the helpful reminder was very appreciated as it will get me better answers next time.

Thanks for the answer!

Thanks for the answer!

To paraphrase ESR: thank you for this grandmotherly kindness. :)

Thanks for the list.

I asked on purpose again for a couple of reasons: most of the answers were over 1 year old, most focus on why people shouldn't ask and not why they do ask or why they do sign.

Indeed, and learning to use a debugger will allow you to gain fluency in new languages and frameworks much faster that the simple, albeit powerful, printf.

I remember needing to learn Ruby and Rails on an existing closed codebase and having the debugger take me right to the core of Rails several times to understand why certain things were done in a certain way in the top level code. This allowed me to get acquainted with internals of Rails and how Ruby's inheritance system much faster as well as the existing codebase that was built on top.

I go as far as to have a dedicated project notebook for big new projects, I write everything down that I come across that I need to remember or need to question.

I've often been dropped into codebases where there is only a month to question the previous maintainer before all the business knowledge is lost as they move on to bigger and better things. So getting all the questions/queries down asap is the fastest step to get the undocumented business logic documented.

Even when you can't ask the questions I like to turn all the unknown unknowns into known unknowns. :)

Interesting!

I'm one of the admins on SSG, thanks for posting!

You might be right, although a 50% grade to pass The Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People still seems a little on the low side to me.