What is the quality of a good tip?
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TheArchitectmc∞ wrote:
book review also: Writing Great Code Vol 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level
Read it, looks good, voted it good, and ripped into one of the guys who down voted it :-\
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Thanks Guy! :cool:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
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Never play pool with a guy named after a city.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Wow! I wonder where that comes from because I distinctly remember saying that to someone about 25 years ago but can't for the life of me remember where I heard it. Still an excellent tip though! :)
"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." — Blaise Pascal
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Yeah, but it's making my index go down. I thought I wrote a good tip and got a bad 2.67 rating I had a 4.67 rating before that tip and now it droped my overall rating to 3.67 or something.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
Who cares? If you found it valuable, someone else might also. If a few people who fancy themselves critics want to down-vote your post, it doesn't matter. Someone out here may have learned a lot from your tip and just moved on without voting. That's more of a valuable contribution to the site than many of those who post negative votes ever make. We're running a community here, not an election.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I'm thinking of writing a tip. My past tips have not gone so well, they don't get a lot of views or votes and the votes are not so great, I don't think the tip is all that bad. I think a tip should be be a short bit of experience you can offer, not a full article. What are your thoughts? What makes a good tip?
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
In my experience, only the foremost inch or two count as a tip. The rest is merely supporting structure. A quality tip should be well formed, and be presented in a professional, goal-oriented manner, addressing directly the core issue. It should provide ultimate satisfaction to the recipient with minimum introductory comments, but sufficient commentary to place the recipient in a receptive frame of mind. Repetition can be important, especially for newbies, so the point should be hammered home, so to speak, in order to acheive the desired goal. Feedback from recipients can be effectively utilized to fine tune the presentation for the consumers of your tip.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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In my experience, only the foremost inch or two count as a tip. The rest is merely supporting structure. A quality tip should be well formed, and be presented in a professional, goal-oriented manner, addressing directly the core issue. It should provide ultimate satisfaction to the recipient with minimum introductory comments, but sufficient commentary to place the recipient in a receptive frame of mind. Repetition can be important, especially for newbies, so the point should be hammered home, so to speak, in order to acheive the desired goal. Feedback from recipients can be effectively utilized to fine tune the presentation for the consumers of your tip.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I think this should be interesting. You may want to know why they call it the "minimal" code site.
Najeeb Shaikh
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Don't eat yellow snow is a good tip.
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Okay I don't think this one sucks, it has worth wile content: Building a Bridge...[^] Not even any spelling errors. I looked at yours, they look good. I'll use yours as a guideline. Are you a mentor here on CP John?
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
<blockquote class="FQ"><div class="FQA">TheArchitectmc∞ wrote:</div>Not even any spelling errors.</blockquote> I see a few errors. Two missing words, one spelling error, one missing comma, a missing hyphen (I'd let that one slide, maybe CP ate it or there is a difference in norms between where I was taught and where you were). As far as why the tip got low marks, I don't know. It seems decent enough, but maybe it feels more like just presenting facts than really giving a "tip". To me a tip would be more of a unique way of doing something than just regurgitating something you read somewhere. I'm not sure how anyone else would rate it though, so take that for what it's worth.
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I'm thinking of writing a tip. My past tips have not gone so well, they don't get a lot of views or votes and the votes are not so great, I don't think the tip is all that bad. I think a tip should be be a short bit of experience you can offer, not a full article. What are your thoughts? What makes a good tip?
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
Depends on how cute she is, if she's not, or its a dude, then i usually do 20-25 depending on the service. ;) Also depends on how much the meal was, but generally no less that a couple of bucks. And never less that 20%, unless the service was horrible. But I've been known to do up to 50% on some meals. And we are talking about meals right? I can think of other services that you tip.
I like dead people. They are quiet and happy with what you give them.
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Depends on how cute she is, if she's not, or its a dude, then i usually do 20-25 depending on the service. ;) Also depends on how much the meal was, but generally no less that a couple of bucks. And never less that 20%, unless the service was horrible. But I've been known to do up to 50% on some meals. And we are talking about meals right? I can think of other services that you tip.
I like dead people. They are quiet and happy with what you give them.
When I was a drinker, I would tip very well; sometimes they would come back and tell me it was way too much, I'd say no, go home and take care of your kids and have a nice night. Me an the booze don't mix anymore so I'm going to stick with the 20%.
ecooke wrote:
And we are talking about meals right?
No this was suppose to be a thread about writing tips/tricks here at CP. :laugh:
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You're over tipping. It's still 15% for most of us.
There is no such thing as overtipping (IMHO) for good service. I love to eat/drink/be merry and nothing brings down the experience than someone who doesn't care that I'm there to enjoy myself and my company. I say 20% + for good service or better, average service will get them 20% on the nose and when I'm unhappy I'll go 10% to make the point. Regardless of the service I'll never leave no tip at all as I think this is just bad form. So... what was the OP asking again? :~
Mike Devenney
