Thanks for your comment. Actually, contrary to what you said (unless you’re being sarcastic and my sarcasm detector is broken), I’m not a really good teacher.

Hell, I’m not even a teacher at all I keep trying to teach people about things, but I’m failing miserably most of the time. However, if this post was good to you, nice. Al least I can now sleep well being sure that it was good for someone

An example:
At the moment there seems to be a trend to name every application with a fancy abbreviation that – when read out normally – sounds like a common word or name. I don’t know why they do it but it makes for really frustrating google searches. For example, I found an ontology for text annotation which was called SUSANNE. Now imaging, your boss tells you to find a text annotation ontology for some language and you google for it. Now on the third hit you read something like “… maybe susanne could help you with your problem” and you think it’s a person, which let’s you continue googling for hours without end.
Now an expert in this field will tell you – “It was in the 3rd hit! Why didn’t you find it?”.

This may seem a really constructed example but in my experience it really IS harder to search for something when your not really sure what you really are searching. But I hope that this will be solved with the semantic web maybe…

Yes, it’s a must read. I always try to point new people to this document as the first thing they need to read before pointing them to the actual tech documentation.

It helps by letting them know that future pointers to RTFM aren’t personal and, instead, are a sign that they aren’t doing their homework correctly.

Thanks for the visit and for your comment.

First of all, thanks for the visit. As for your comments, surely, it doesn’t matter which area of knowledgment we are talking (or, in this case, writting) about. The pattern and the story is the same.

There will always be good and bad people. And a way to distinguish good people from bad people is noticing those which does contribute with something instead of only trying to take something from you.