On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, DonFrench <[email protected]> wrote:
> And the truth is that even then the odds are that no one will answer you. > I highly disagree. > I recently posted a very simple and clear one-sentence question > Which was what, out of curiosity? > that I know a high percentage of the people on this list knew the answer > to. > And you know this for a fact how? > Trying to figure out how to get an answer from this group is a puzzle in > itself. > The problem is that on these Android groups a lot of people post things like "URGENT!: my app doesn't work, why?", or, like in this case, large chunk of alien code with no context, or "here's a picture of what I want to do, how do I do it?", or other equally vague and generic posts that would take hours to answer completely. I don't know about the rest of the group, but I'm more inclined to help where I can when 1) The post is clear, concise, and specific (not "it doesn't work") and 2) The person indicates that they've put time and energy into solving the problem and they've narrowed it down to something specific (they Googled with no result, they checked the debug log with nothing obvious, they've tried A, B, C, and D with no luck, etc). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
