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Many tech writers have a heavy disdain for FAQs. At first this disdain seemed a bit unfounded and elitist to me, but now, after a recent project, I’m starting to get the reasons for the disdain. All too often the FAQ format is abused by non-writers who want an easy way to write. The list of…
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