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Originally posted by Dave Vick:
Maybe a little too much for us, we'd have to tone it down a little to keep up the 'friendly place for greenhorns' image.
Originally posted by Dave Vick:
... we'd have to tone it down a little to keep up the 'friendly place for greenhorns' image...
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Originally posted by David O'Meara:
I had someone post a link to this site as a response to a question in the JDBC forum. Any way we can paraphrase and incorporate into the FAQ or Javaranch culture?
Any clues as to where this barrage of misdirected e-mail is coming from would be most welcome.
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
I'm certainly not the luminary that either you or ESR are, but I get these too. I've eventually resigned myself to just ignoring them; seems like this is the best way to get them to go away.
Why a barrage right now? It's back-to-school time!
Also, I just cannot imagine attempting to lob a complex technical problem into the mailbox of a total stranger -- with not even "pretty please", an offer of free beer, a date and a movie, or whatever. That mentality is just completely beyond me. (Old-fogyism strikes!)
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Originally posted by Kyle Brown:
Yes, we'd have to tone it down but maybe distilling it into a "10 top things to do before you post a question" would be good, as would some examples of questions that are likely to be answered (well-phrased questions).
Originally posted by Rick Moen:
Hello, back again. (I'm one of the two authors of "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way", at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html, which we originally created in 2001 and has been linked to by a large number of sites including JavaRanch.)
What brought me back here is the nice little essay you've posted since my last visit at http://faq.javaranch.com/view?HowToAskQuestionsTheSmartWay, as a primary self-help link from http://faq.javaranch.com/: "Before troubling Mr.Hatfield or your co-Ranchers, please reflect on HowToAskQuestionsTheSmartWay....."
I like the essay a lot, and hope/expect that it meets the forums' needs nicely. It expresses a lot of Eric's and my suggestions, plus some of your own, in a different and Java-centric way -- and much more concisely than our original. (Ours needs to go on a diet, I think.)
You might have seen this coming, though: I wanted to ask JavaRanch to fix a problem.
People have started to write to me about the essay at http://faq.javaranch.com/view?HowToAskQuestionsTheSmartWay: These are people who know I co-wrote "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" -- or in some other way get the two works confused. So: I'm certainly not trying to suggest that Eric and I own that essay title, but (he says, slapping his saddle for emphasis) it would be right neighbourly of you to switch yours over to a slightly different title (and URL).
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
I also like EFH's other addition to the newly-renamed page:
Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
I see EFH has fixed the problem with the links (sorry Rick - if you give a URL followed by punctuation, our software tries to include the punctuation as part of the link). I also like EFH's other addition to the newly-renamed page:
[ July 08, 2005: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]
Originally posted by Rick Moen:
... (As you say, I didn't embed that punctuation: The forum software's URL parser did.) And a big thanks to Ernest for renaming JavaRanch's essay.
Best Regards,
Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com
I agree. Here's the link: http://javaranch.com/programming-pearls.jsp |