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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

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Translations: Brazilo-Portuguese Chinese (Traditional) Czech Dutch Estonian French Georgian German Greek Hindi Hungarian Indonesion Japanese Lithuanian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Ukrainian Uzbek If you want to copy, mirror, translate, or excerpt this document, please see my copying policy. Many project websites link to this document in their sections on how to get help. That's fine, it's the use we intended — but if you are a webmaster creating such a link for your project page, please display prominently near the link notice that we are not a help desk for your project! We have learned the hard way that without such a notice, we will repeatedly be pestered by idiots who think having published this document makes it our job to solve all the world's technical problems. If you're reading this document because you need help, and you walk away with the impression you can get it directly from the authors of this document, you are one of the idiots we are talking about. Don't ask us q

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way How To Ask Questions The Smart Way Eric Steven Raymond Thyrsus Enterprises < esr@thyrsus.com > Rick Moen < respond-auto@linuxmafia.com > Copyright © 2001,2006,2014 Eric S. Raymond, Rick Moen Revision History Revision 3.10 21 May 2014 esr New section on Stack Overflow. Revision 3.9 23 Apr 2013 esr URL fixes. Revision 3.8 19 Jun 2012 esr URL fix. Revision 3.7 06 Dec 2010 esr Helpful hints for ESL speakers. Revision 3.7 02 Nov 2010 esr Several translations have disappeared. Revision 3.6 19 Mar 2008 esr Minor update and new links. Revision 3.5 2 Jan 2008 esr Typo

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