{"id":10416,"date":"2006-08-24T13:05:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T10:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/24\/frequently-asked-questions-question\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T10:05:47","slug":"frequently-asked-questions-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/24\/frequently-asked-questions-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Questions question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joel Spolsky raises an issue about Superstitious FAQ Writers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Have you noticed that FAQ pages for online services almost never include instructions for how to cancel your account?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, I’ve noticed that. But I’ve also noticed something else, something that forces me to constantly ask the same questioin every time I see a FAQ: “Have you noticed that FAQ pages almost never include really frequently asked questions?” They seem to only have questions that authors THINK are frequent. Either that or something else is a reason for that I never use FAQ pages.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Joel Spolsky raises an issue about Superstitious FAQ Writers: Have you noticed that FAQ pages for online services almost never include instructions for how to cancel your account? Yes, I’ve noticed that. But I’ve also noticed something else, something that forces me to constantly ask the same questioin every time I see a FAQ: “Have … Continue reading Frequently Asked Questions question<\/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-10416","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":10416,"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":27816,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/29\/learning-machine-learning-and-nlp-from-187-quora-questions\/","url_meta":{"origin":10416,"position":1},"title":"Learning Machine Learning and NLP from 187 Quora Questions","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Machine Learning is a hot subject these days. \u00a0And as with any other hot subject, there is a multitude of books, online course, videos, and guides available all over the web. \u00a0I think that this curated list of \u00a0187 Quora questions is an interesting way of approaching the subject. 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