{"id":10384,"date":"2006-08-19T05:21:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T02:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/19\/the-art-of-asking\/"},"modified":"2006-08-19T05:21:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T02:21:25","slug":"the-art-of-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/19\/the-art-of-asking\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of asking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is nice and short list of tips on hot to ask questions<\/a> at LifeHacker<\/a>. If you are new to the Internet, or if you are old and noone seem to ever answer your questions, go read that little article.<\/p>\n

If it’s obvious that you haven’t put any elbow grease into researching your question yourself, folks are a lot less likely to help you – especially on mailing lists. Make sure you do a good faith run through the user guide and search the web before you waste other people’s bandwidth on an issue you can solve yourself.<\/p>\n

There are times when web search won’t help because you don’t know the right terms that others have used to describe the concept. In those cases, say up front, “My Google skills failed me” or “I searched a few different combinations of foo and bar, with no success” or “I called customer service and they couldn’t help either.”<\/p>\n

Show that you at least tried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

There is nice and short list of tips on hot to ask questions at LifeHacker. If you are new to the Internet, or if you are old and noone seem to ever answer your questions, go read that little article. If it’s obvious that you haven’t put any elbow grease into researching your question yourself, … Continue reading The art of asking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23938,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/21\/mobilegeddon-faq\/","url_meta":{"origin":10384,"position":0},"title":"Mobilegeddon FAQ","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 21, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Google Webmaster Central Blog answers some frequently asked questions about mobilegeddon. \u00a0And no, I don't think it's mobilegeddon, I just love the term.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29009,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/23\/stack-overflow-buddy\/","url_meta":{"origin":10384,"position":1},"title":"Stack Overflow Buddy","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"An innocent joke on Facebook brought in something really golden - Stack Overflow Buddy.\u00a0 It is a fun PHP library for all those of you who search for code examples on Stack Overflow and then copy-paste those into your projects. 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