The ritual isn't really complete until someone has complained about the people complaining about people asking simple questions and someone else has posted the

The ritual isn't really complete until someone has complained about the people complaining about people asking simple questions and someone else has posted the ESR document about how to ask smart questions, a document so astonishingly, vastly patronising that it probably ought to be compulsory reading for every developer starting out, with the addendum, "If you've made it all the way through this soul-crushing drivel, congratulations! It can't get worse than this!"