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To anyone asking for tips and tricks to start programming or become good at it, here is your ultimate golden advice: learn how to google and stop asking stupid questions like this before doing a quick research.

Reasons why:

1. You will most likely to learn better if you do your own research before asking for help. Even if you can't solve problem, you will be better and better at googling over time.
2. It is instant source of information. No need to wait for response (except response from server of course).
3. It takes only YOUR time.
4. Much more possible solutions/answers to your problems/questions.
5. Your quality of life will be improved over time. Not only your dev life but your daily life too.

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  • 9
    2y
    And my answer to that is that there are no stupid questions ;)

    If they did not start with google, asking/searching here can give them your answer :P

    And my reasoning behind “no stupid question” is that what is usually considered a stupid question is when someone is asking for “obvious“ things.

    In which case, if they really do not know, its much more important to actually ask the question.

    The only really stupid question is the one you never asked but should have.
  • 5
    2y
    I would say ask questions and take notes to don’t ask them twice.
  • 4
    2y
    Stupid questions require smart answers.
    Stop giving stupid answers so people stop asking them 😏
  • 1
    2y
    How to be good at what you do: Don't be satisfied with "I don't care if it works".
  • 3
    2y
    That’s why you ask questions back
  • 3
    2y
    Just don't be afraid to ask, but first check if there is already answer, 90% there already is.
    And don't forget to ask with description, so u don't have to wait to multiple responses 😀
  • 0
    2y
    @C0D4 like shutdown -r 0 to restart app

    It will test how fast the whole server restart and what Service get booted.
  • 1
    2y
    @max19931 and verify failover automation ;)
  • 1
    2y
    @Voxera sadly stupid questions exists. Sometimes people do something get an error and immediately asks for help. Even without reading error. I am not against stupid questions. Sometimes I ask stupid questions too (like when answer feels like something obvious but still cant figure out). I am against asking it without even trying to solve your own problem.
  • 1
    2y
    @hack what I think you're meaning here is the lack of Question itself. It's not even a question, when they ask for mambo-jumbo. But you're right - once they really-really ponder this error message and the context, it's a legit reason to ask.

    Also, sadly we're in the age of oversaturation, and "just searching" is a broken approach.
  • 1
    2y
    i’d also like to add learn to be graceful with failure. problem solving isn’t easy - you’re going to fail tons and make slow progress sometimes, esp. if you’re trying to model the problem.

    some people fail like once, and then they turn to help. like cmon, we are all crying here.
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