I have the impression, we need a guide on remote working etiquette that new hires at remote companies can read before getting started.
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#12How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Eric Steven Raymond
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#14Yeah doesn’t seem that we need to ACK in slack. It’s a boomer tendency.
https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/comments/1l9y56z/smoke...
Wad that up and smoke it kiddo
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#15My life hack for this kind of situation is to say “hello” back. Works every time.
If I'm feeling grumpy I don't respond, but if I have some patience left in the tank I'll use, "Hi, what's up?" which usually short-circuits the salutations.
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#16I see this more often when someone desires synchronous, multi-turn interaction, not simply "when is that thing starting again?". Things where they aren't exactly sure how to ask the question so they want to rely on you asking questions back and then together zeroing in on the solution of some issue.
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#17Hello everyone!
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#18How To Ask Questions The Smart Way Eric Steven Raymond http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
These topics are so important for junior engineers to grasp, because not only is it helpful for interacting with humans, providing the additional context to LLM's will get you much, much better answers.
I wish there was a good source of this information from a less polarizing figure.
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#19"You still say hello!" - Uncle Leo
I agree with the website. It's even worse when you have to do the "how are you?" back and forth before getting to the actual request.