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by Someone
1370 days ago
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before: “When you ask your question, display the fact that you have done these things first; this will help establish that you're not being a lazy sponge and wasting people's time. Better yet, display what you have learned from doing these things. We like answering questions for people who have demonstrated they can learn from the answers.” Also, knowing what you know and don’t know may make helping you a lot easier, thus increasing the possibility that you’ll get an answer that helps you. In particular, if you did “Try to find an answer by searching the Web.”, did you find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem? If so, what’s insufficient for you in that? (I also think http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum applies. IMO, this isn’t the forum to ask these kind of question, but will let the community judge that) |
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I read through the wikipedia but it didn't really click with me and I felt it definitely wasn't written for a five year old :-)
In my defence I wanted to hear how others would state the problem and was afraid of biasing the response by leading too much with what I may or may not correctly know. Though I had tried to provide some direction with my questions that I hoped would be addressed by others.
I thought the question was in line with the general HN guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html