I came here to post exactly this. I don't know what's happening, maybe it has always happened, but these days I get more easily pissed when someone's trouble could be solved just by reading a book... People: blog posts are nice and all, but for god sake, just read a book. Especially when there is a good, almost universally agreed upon, such book.

I think it's unbelievable that people want to learn about a subject but can't be bothered to read a book about it. This leads to flawed learning at the foundational level, and then avoidable surprises when years (yes, years...) down the road people discover some "unexpected" behavior they should have learned about at the very beginning of the learning journey.

In ye good olden days, when people came to a forum with a stupid question that could be easily solved if the person asking would just bother to read the manual, they used to get a polite RTFM...

Maybe we should start saying RAFB when stuff like that is posted.