Re: How to ask smart questions question

2009-05-30 Thread Aahz
In article <960af9f3-c445-4d6d-b277-76a123ee4...@s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, Carl Banks wrote: >On May 26, 7:48=A0am, Gary Herron wrote: >> >> The proper response to a question like this has to be >> =A0 =A0http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> as anything else is complete gue

Re: How to ask smart questions question

2009-05-27 Thread Ben Finney
Carl Banks writes: > On May 26, 7:48 am, Gary Herron wrote: > > The proper response to a question like this has to be   > >  http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html as anything else > > is complete guesswork. > > Is there a Cliff's Notes version of this? > > I may be a cynic but I w

Re: How to ask smart questions question

2009-05-26 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: I can do a quick one albeit without citation: - Have you googled/searched? - No really, have you? - Are you really, really sure? - So what did you 'search for|tried before' which didn't returned a result you can work with? - What does that tell you about yourself? -

Re: How to ask smart questions question

2009-05-26 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Carl Banks wrote: On May 26, 7:48 am, Gary Herron wrote: John wrote: I'm okay with init, but it seems to me that enter is redundant since it appears that anything you want to execute in enter can be done in init. The proper response to a question like this has to be http://www.catb.org/~es

How to ask smart questions question

2009-05-26 Thread Carl Banks
On May 26, 7:48 am, Gary Herron wrote: > John wrote: > > I'm okay with init, but it seems to me that enter is redundant since > > it appears that anything you want to execute in enter can be done in > > init. > > The proper response to a question like this has to be >    http://www.catb.org/~esr/f