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We did a coproject with a Korean team. If you asked one of those Koreans about his age, he had to think a lot before answering: First, they go by a lunar calendar, 12 moons being shorter than 365.24 days. Second, they count years from base 1. Your first 12 moons, you are 1 year old, the next 12 moons, you are two years, and so on.
I don't know whether they count years this way all over South Korea; it could be just in one subculture (but I got the impression that everbody on this Korean team agreed).
Sometimes, in a Western culture, you hear people not wanting to admit how young they were, say things like "I had my first lover in my thirteeth year", hoping that the audience will interpret it as "when I was thirteen years old". Usually they do; zero based age is firmly established in most Western cultures.
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I'm not member there, but of course I know the forum because
a.) If I google for a question I often find some links pointing to SO
b.) Lot of answers in CP have a link to SO
Now coming to the point:
First I saw it in the answers, that answers only containing a link are not appreciated.
And finally I found in How do I write a good answer? - Help Center - Stack Overflow[^]:
Provide context for links
Links to external resources are encouraged, but please add context around the link so your fellow users will have some idea what it is and why it’s there. Always quote the most relevant part of an important link, in case the target site is unreachable or goes permanently offline.
Finally why I post this:
I think this is a good style guide. Means, no answers with only a link!
BTW, I did it too often, sorry 
How do you think about it?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It's definitely a good idea - if you just post a link, and the page you linked to moves or dies without leaving a forwarding address, then when someone finds your answer five years later, it's no good to them.
However, when there's clearly been no effort put into the question, a link to Google (or LMGTFY[^]) is probably enough.
Either that, or a link to this video[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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From now on I will take the second link with a link to your Suggestion here 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Quote: "We've tried nothing, and we're fresh out of ideas!"
That seems to be a familiar refrain in QA.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If you consume pork only during the 5th month and brutalize others who don't is that Mayham?
Thought of the Weak | Original puns, unlike copy/pastes of @OriginalGriff
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+1 for sooo bad...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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... Hover over your Notifications count (top right, white number on a red background) and see if there is a message about Newsletters and the new CASL legislation. If so, click on it and agrre that CP can email you.
I did, and now I get forum emails again as well ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Does this have anything to do with the CP error page of the error page I got this afternoon? 
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It appeared to be only about newsletters and I don't want newsletters so I didn't click it.
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If you expire without believing in a god, was that diagnostic?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If I pray to Cod, does that make me fishy?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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If you want to improve your relationships, you could always pray to Codd[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: If you want to improve your relationships, you could always pray to Codd[^].
From article:
Quote: His design for a self-replicating computer was only implemented in 2010.
Praying to Codd may be our only salvation. Thanks to the magic of movies, we all know how his design works out!
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Richard Deeming wrote: If you want to improve your relationships, you could always pray to Codd[^].
If your wife catches you in a 1-to-N or N-to-N relationship, you're in big trouble!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The lack of belief would make one an atheist, not agnostic.
Google would agree.
But, I'm not seeing anything on diatheists...
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I dunno, if you pray to dog does that mean you suffer from dyslexiruff?
I'll grab my coat.
Jeremy Falcon
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Hmm. My male greyhound is named Bacchus, for the Greek and Roman god of whine (he doesn't bark, he just...).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
I'll diagnostic!
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The galaxys plug hole! 
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Quite nice!
Aside: Where you been?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Been in the UK for a couple of weeks. Got back late last night. Jet lag is horrible but had a nice time. Thanks for asking. 
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