Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer

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Post by _quhg » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 4:49 PM UTC

Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
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Post by gerdesj » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

Fourth item on Monday: "undo a rebase - oops."

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Post by dev_dull » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

This is a really interesting peek into the developers mind. Right away I notice I google things differently than the author. I try and hit up phrases that match a question (which is why I probably over index on stack overflow). The author seems to hit up ideas that remind me of something that might be the title of a blog post or something. Also, my search is definitely more full of stack trace keywords. Probably 80% stack trace keywords by weight.

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Post by social_quotient » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

I love that I’m not the only person that thinks about this still

“dl vs ul”

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Post by drefanzor » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

I'm actually surprised the list wasn't way longer with much weirder queries.

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Post by CaptainJustin » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:14 PM UTC

I appreciate this as some newer developers I have worked with have been concerned that Googling things is something they need to grow out of. Google engineers, being somewhat revered in my Big Corp, Googling things every day would go a long way to encourage them.

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Post by aloknnikhil » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:15 PM UTC

On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

dev_dull wrote: post #3

This is a really interesting peek into the developers mind. Right away I notice I google things differently than the author. I try and hit up phrases that match a question (which is why I probably over index on stack overflow). The author seems to hit up ideas that remind me of something that might be the title of a blog post or something. Also, my search is definitely more full of stack trace keywords. Probably 80%…

I almost never search for stack traces: I pick out class names or error codes and search for that instead. How's your success rate with finding useful information?

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Post by limograf » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

social_quotient wrote: post #4

I love that I’m not the only person that thinks about this still “dl vs ul”

ul = countable items in arbitrary order

ol = countable items in a pertinent sequence

dl = key value pairs

table = a matrix of three or more keys and values

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Post by kylek » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

"Never memorize something that you can look up." -Albert Einstein

edit- Had to look up who actually said this