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The thing is: many times the question is harder than the answer. If only we could phrase the question right, then the answer is actually the easy part.
by Hoasi 10y ago
The thing is: many times the question is harder than the answer. If only we could phrase the question right, then the answer is actually the easy part.
- TheCapn 10y agoThis has been a big part of my experience. I think the last 3 times I've gone to SO to write a question I spend an hour finding the right code samples, explaining what the problem is and why I need to solve it. Why I've chosen this route and after all that has been put down on the page I see what the real issue is and solve it before its even submitted. It's almost become another tool to use, "How would I structure this problem if I needed help from the community?" It forces you to think through the problem into the route cause, almost like debugging your thoughts and removing the bloat