how to ask questions

[cellio]

A pointer to Eric Raymond's guide to asking questions just came across a tech-writing list I'm on. It's aimed at people asking technical questions on newsgroups (and is hacker-centric), and it contains advice on debugging and framing questions appropriately. I already know pretty much everything there, but I found it an interesting read. (And, next time I find myself dealing with someone who doesn't understand this, I'll have somewhere to send him.)

One thing I didn't know is that RTFM apparently has a descendant now, STFW. I'd never heard this one before.

Comments

[elletweedy.livejournal.com]

Ahh.. I expanded STFW as "So The Fuck What". :)

I've never heard that one either. In my case, I'm really bad at finding information on the web, so that's the same as me not getting an answer.