Timeline for Questions that are really unclear on an underlying concept
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| Sep 13, 2011 at 20:44 | comment | added | Jacob Mattison | Yeah, good point. That is exactly what I mean. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 20:17 | comment | added | user102937 | @Jacob: I don't think exact duplicate means what you think it means. What you are really describing is a canonical answer, but there isn't very good support in the SE software and community for canonical answers yet. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 20:13 | comment | added | Jacob Mattison | The need to explain the underlying concept is what makes the question a duplicate: there may be a zillion different ways to ask why I can't make an Ajax call in the middle of a function and return the Ajax result at the end of the function ("why is my return value undefined? why did my textbox not update? etc.) but there's only one real answer: describing an asynchronous call with a callback. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 16:34 | comment | added | user102937 | Explain the underlying concept. If that doesn't work because the OP has only a basic level of understanding, direct them to a decent tutorial. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 16:32 | comment | added | Sean McMillan | Hmm... I've seen ones where they have a minimal test case, they just don't get it. stackoverflow.com/questions/7400686/… is the most recent one. Decently asked, but still comes down to "you don't know a fundamental concept." | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 16:26 | history | answered | user102937 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |