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Quite often asking a good question to knowledgeable people can give you a tested and well working solution in a fraction of the time it would take to search and

by aw3c2 15y ago

Quite often asking a good question to knowledgeable people can give you a tested and well working solution in a fraction of the time it would take to search and try and fail and try a working solution by yourself. For me, often asking the question and then still trying to figure it out myself worked well. Often I come to a solution, post it (IRC) and then later some guru responds with "try this instead" or "with that flag it could do some thing better".

DanBC 15y ago
> Quite often asking a good question to knowledgeable people can give you a tested and well working solution in a fraction of the time it would take to search and try and fail and try a working solution by yourself. The pool of knowledgable people decreases with each question asked, especially if you're not making an effort to at least try to do it yourself.