While this advice makes sense in most cases it is just as important to learn where, how, whom and when to ask. Also as a beginner it is often very difficult to

While this advice makes sense in most cases it is just as important to learn where, how, whom and when to ask. Also as a beginner it is often very difficult to separate good from bad advice, so it can make a lot of sense to ask even simple questions in e.g. an IRC channel even if you could find an answer with Google.