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One aspect of being a successful engineer is asking great questions! We shouldn't be afraid to ask questions (they are critical to how we learn and grow) but, if you follow these steps, you'll ensure the questions you ask are high quality and you can learn the most from the answers you get.

I read a guide like this when I was growing as an engineer and found it to be one of the things that accelerated my personal growth drastically - I also found that, following these steps, I ended up answering my own question 75% more of the time.

Before you do

Make sure you've searched for the answer in the documentation, Stack Overflow, in channels (on Slack or Discord), etc.

How

• Ask in the right place - find the experts for this
• Skip the hello, get straight the point

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declare module "sharethis-reactjs" {
  type SharingNetwork =
    | "blogger"
    | "delicious"
    | "digg"
    | "email"
    | "facebook"
    | "flipboard"
    | "google"
    | "linkedin"

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/**
 * This adds a background color to all recycler view cells that is not moved when dragging a view - this allows a "placeholder" for dragged items
 * such as a background color, in the future a dotted/broken line outline, etc.
 */
public class CellBackgroundColorItemDecorator extends ItemDecoration {
    private final Paint colorPaint;

    public CellBackgroundColorItemDecorator(@ColorInt int color) {
        colorPaint = new Paint();
        colorPaint.setColor(color);

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import android.content.Context;
import android.support.design.widget.BottomSheetDialog;
import android.support.v7.view.menu.MenuBuilder;

import com.airbnb.android.utils.Check;
import com.airbnb.n2.BottomSheetBuilder;
import com.airbnb.n2.BottomSheetItemClickListener;
import com.airbnb.n2.BottomSheetMenuItem;

import java.util.List;

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protected <T> void subscribe(Observable<T> observable, ResubscriptionObserver<T> observer) {
    observable.compose(observableGroup.<T>transform(observer.resubscriptionTag().toString()))
        .subscribe(observer);
}

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// Code snippet 1

func test() {
	let f: Int = 5

	// Original:
	CGPoint(x: f + f * (f + f) + f * f, y: 1) // (1.5786 sec)

	// Faster:
	let x = f + f * (f + f) + f * f; let y = 1; CGPoint(x: x, y: y) // put in variables (0.0066 sec)

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var trie = createTrie(dictionary);

function findWords(board) {
  var count = 0;

  var visited = [];

  for (var x = 0; x < board.width; x++) {
    visited[x] = []
    for (var y = 0; y < board.height; y++) {

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var BoggleBoard = function(letters, width, height) {
  if (letters.length != width * height) throw 'incorrect board length';

  this.width = width;
  this.height = height;

  this.letters = letters;
}

BoggleBoard.prototype.at = function(x, y) {

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var TrieNode = function(letter) {
  this.letter = letter == null ? null : letter.toUpperCase();
  this.children = [];
  this.isLeaf = false;
};

TrieNode.prototype.hasChild = function(letter) {
  return letter.toUpperCase() in this.children;
};

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var dictionary = [
'the',
'of',
'and',
'to',
'a',
'in',
'for',
'is',
'on',