Unfortunately, StackOverflow is difficult-to-avoid nowadays…
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#2It all depends on how you use it. If something I make produces an error, or unexpected output, the first thing I do after the usual "stop and think" phase is google it. More often than not, that search will give me at least half a page of Stackoverflow pages - many of them completely irrelevant to my specific problem of course - but looking at the code can jog something in my mind that I wouldn't have thought of myself. It helps to look at somewhat related code. At least in my opinion.
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#3I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer to the question be "Have you ever heard of Google, n00b"? (Thread locked).
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#4I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer to the question be "Have you ever heard of Google, n00b"? (Thread locked).
I've lost track of the number of times that I've gone to a question that actually deals with what I'm looking for just to find that it's locked and marked duplicate of a completely different question. Complete pain in the ass.
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#5I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer to the question be "Have you ever heard of Google, n00b"? (Thread locked).
I've lost track of the number of times that I've gone to a question that actually deals with what I'm looking for just to find that it's locked and marked duplicate of a completely different question. Complete pain in the ass.
This is the worst and I see it often enough to want to respond to your gripe with support!
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#6I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer to the question be "Have you ever heard of Google, n00b"? (Thread locked).
I've lost track of the number of times that I've gone to a question that actually deals with what I'm looking for just to find that it's locked and marked duplicate of a completely different question. Complete pain in the ass.
Although I've encountered this as well, in most cases I got a useful answer for my problem.
I often ddg problems related to Ubuntu. I had many encounters where someone had the same problem than me on askubuntu, but the answers where unhelpful, sometimes only the question was posted with no answer at all. Or the original poster stated he solved his problem, without posting the solution. In most cases, on SO I found relief.
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#7What I find hilarious is when I post a very detailed technical android answer and then someone comes along and edits it to be incorrect. I wish there was a way to make your posts only viewable or deletable. The people who go around editing do a terrible job...
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#8I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer to the question be "Have you ever heard of Google, n00b"? (Thread locked).
I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer concisely explains how to solve my exact problem, often with several other alternatives in the other answers and a nuanced discussion about the tradeoffs between them.
Stack Overflow is like democracy. It sucks sometimes, but it's still better than everything else we've come up with so far.
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#9Main issues for me: 1)too eager closing of questions for whatever reason 2)number of answers for given question growing over time and best answers not getting the best position.
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#10What I find hilarious is when I post a very detailed technical android answer and then someone comes along and edits it to be incorrect. I wish there was a way to make your posts only viewable or deletable. The people who go around editing do a terrible job...
That's a sweeping geneealization. More often than noy, those nifty, pristine posts with corrext syntax and grammar are the work of editors who clean them up.