Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

[Ori Idan]

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>  The kind of newbies' questions which I prefer to avoid is the repeating
>> one.  One newbie asks how to mount his USB DiskOnKey.  We answer him.  A
>> week later, another newbie comes and (being newbie, he is totally
>> unaware of the list archives or of the documentation available from
>> Google), asks the same question.  AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
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> I know absolutely nothing about programming in QT. That does not mean I'm
> going to ask newbie questions should I have to do it. It just means I'll do
> some reading and then ask questions (they may still be newbie questions, of
> course, but they are much less likely to be).
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> Getting people to drop the "newbie frame of mind" is the real challenge.
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> Shachar
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We are all newbies in this area or another.
I guess the term newbie here means those that do not search archives or
google before posting questions.

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Ori Idan


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