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by enraged_camel 4406 days ago
On the other hand, there is a lot to be said about knowing what question to ask and how to ask it. In the age of Stack Overflow, using the wrong terminology or being too specific with your question can lead to never finding that chosen, community-wiki'd answer with 500 upvotes that holds the solution to your problem (or shows you that you have been following the wrong line of inquiry, built upon the wrong set of assumptions).