<commit_before>---
layout: essay
type: essay
published: true
title: It's Okay to be Dumb
date: 2017-09-07
labels:
  - Stack Overflow
  - Questions
---
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46105086/is-there-a-performance-advatage-to-using-clear-method-of-a-dictonary-or-set

You can learn more at the [UH Micromouse Website](http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~mmouse/about.html).
<commit_msg>Update smartquestions.md<commit_after>---
layout: essay
type: essay
published: true
title: It's Okay to be Dumb
date: 2017-09-07
labels:
  - Stack Overflow
  - Questions
---
In your programming career thus far, we've all had this insecurity of being ignorant. You soon come to realize this is just part of the game. We were all stupid in the beginning. Now we're...less stupid. The secret to that was not just learning but asking questions. Some people are good at that, some just don't get it. Let's take a look at [this guy](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34691691/reading-from-text-file-to-array-of-strings?rq=1).  There's literally no actual question being asked here. For people to give you a good answer, state explicitly what your difficulties and what you are inquiring about. 

To give an example of a form


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{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '7186745', 'n_tokens_mistral': 394, 'n_tokens_neox': 354, 'n_words': 148}