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Rubber duck debugging – out. Talking to a person – in.

rinaarts on January 17, 2022

If you’re part of the software industry you may have heard of rubber duck debugging. The idea is when you’re trying to debug an issue, you’ll expla...
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Zohar Peled

TL;DR; Asking questions about stuff you could find online in minutes is annoying, asking questions about stuff you've researched is great.

IMHO, online communities like Stackoverflow are great learning platform for good questioning skills - but the trick here is trying to answer questions, not just asking them. The more questions you answer, the more you learn first-hand the importance of good preparations for questions, and the better you get at asking questions yourself.