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On 21 February 2007 18:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote: |
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> > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid |
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> > answers" way of thinking. |
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> A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :) |
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:-) |
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I will never take up a technical support job because I know I will soon start |
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to throw bricks through the phone line. For the same reason, I can not be a |
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teacher - not a good one, anyway. |
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> More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they |
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> significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little |
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> information to get a really useful answer. GIGO applies here as much as |
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> anywhere else. |
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While I agree with you in general, I still think that most noise on most |
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mailing lists is due to bad answers, not questions. Answers tend to get |
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triggered by keywords without the answering folks reading the whole question. |
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So I put up with the occasional bad question. ;-) |
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Uwe |
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A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 |
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Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 |
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