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Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by nitrogen »

crooked-v wrote: post #132
fctorial wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean literally everyone who's been coding for more than 3 months. You need 5 upvotes on your questions to get that much.

Unless you've never made any particular use of StackOverflow, stumble on an incorrect answer, realize you have no way to fix it, and then just leave because you don't feel like jumping through hoops just to make somebody else's day better.

This is a problem for new user growth on all reputation-based sites -- review sites like Yelp, even HN.

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by jhanschoo »

nonbirithm wrote: post #136

This is exactly the reason I can never understand how it is impossible for the community in SO to override the accepted answer. The argument goes that the accepted answer is the one that satisfies the asker's needs so it is always the one that gets placed higher up. But in practice things aren't so cut and dry. - The asker can misunderstand the response. - The asker can accept a response that for the general public's…

You can still write your own answer and comment on the wrong answer.

Users who are callous enough to ignore such comments get what their lack of due diligence deserves.

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by Dylan16807 »

jodrellblank wrote: post #134
crooked-v wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you've never made any particular use of StackOverflow, stumble on an incorrect answer, realize you have no way to fix it, and then just leave because you don't feel like jumping through hoops just to make somebody else's day better.

If you've never made any particular use of StackOverflow, why would you expect them to care what you have to say about anything on the site? It would probably take you as much effort to get 50 rep as it's taken you to post multiple sour grapes comments about how dare they have a threshold which excludes you, don't they know who you are??

> It would probably take you as much effort to get 50 rep as it's taken you to

Yeah? So what. I shouldn't have to farm for rep. I'd even donate to charity to prove I'm not a bot.

I don't want to spam the site with niche questions that nobody can even answer, or go hunting down popular questions to throw answers at that will actually get me points.

> sour grapes

That's not what sour grapes is.

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by m_mueller »

moomin wrote: post #56
jordansmithnz wrote: post #6

Ha, stackoverflow is a great tool, but... the more answers I see on an area I’m experienced in, the more I realize how wrong they can be. Sure, the answer usually gets the job done, but everything else about it might not be right. If I need to use stackoverflow, these days I make sure I do a few things: - read a number of answers, comments included. Just because an answer is accepted doesn’t mean it’s the best one -…

I'll suggest one more addition to this (and any code you take from the internet): put a comment in saying where you got the idea from (with a link). It can help the next guy out a lot. And you might be the next guy.

> And you might be the next guy.

It already happened to me a couple of times that I had a problem, googled it, and found a helpful SO answer .. by myself some years ago. So this is definitely a helpful suggestion.

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by jodrellblank »

fwip wrote: post #167
jodrellblank wrote: post #161

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Do you understand that from the other side, you aren't a known skilled developer submitting valid corrections, you are indistinguishable from any other internet IP address submitting spam and/or low grade buggy misunderstandings? One way they distinguish people who care about code from complete robo-junk is with a minimal effort barrier of community upvotes, which you refuse to engage with. They don't know you're spe…

If it's trivial to reach 50 rep by asking questions, how does it prevent unskilled developers from submitting corrections?

Unskilled developers won't find it trivial. See the new question review queues for the kinds of questions submitted by people who can be bothered to sign up and try to participate for evidence towards this claim. e.g. right now there's one which isn't about programming it's about system administration, doesn't explain what they tried, and concludes with "it is not working" with no further details. This first-question is not likely to get upvoted. By being a minimum-competence filter it's not selecting in only the most skilled developers, it's selecting out huge swathes of people who don't want to do what stackoverflow wants its users to do.

People who submit terrible contributions will fall below 50 rep and lose the ability to do so.

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by jodrellblank »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #173
jodrellblank wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you've never made any particular use of StackOverflow, why would you expect them to care what you have to say about anything on the site? It would probably take you as much effort to get 50 rep as it's taken you to post multiple sour grapes comments about how dare they have a threshold which excludes you, don't they know who you are??

> It would probably take you as much effort to get 50 rep as it's taken you to Yeah? So what. I shouldn't have to farm for rep. I'd even donate to charity to prove I'm not a bot. I don't want to spam the site with niche questions that nobody can even answer, or go hunting down popular questions to throw answers at that will actually get me points. > sour grapes That's not what sour grapes is.

> Yeah? So what.

So whining that stackoverflow has rules which you don't want to follow doesn't make for interesting reading. It's not unfair; you (other commenter) are not hard done by. Don't want to get 50 rep? Then don't get 50 rep. Want to contribute? Get 50 rep it's not a lifelong commitment. Still don't want to get 50 rep? No problem, move on with your life.

> I shouldn't have to farm for rep.

You don't have to farm for rep or post niche questions or hunt down popular questions or anything because you don't have to take part in any way. It's not mandatory.

> I'd even donate to charity to prove I'm not a bot.

Yeah? So what?

> That's not what sour grapes is.

It is what sour grapes is. "sour grapes: Criticism or disparagement of that which one cannot have.". "I can't have stackoverflow on my terms, so I'm going to criticise and disparage it".

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by _-___________-_ »

mdszy wrote: post #66
_-___________-_ wrote: post #2

If you're going to copy-paste code from Stack Overflow and deploy it to millions of users' systems, I think you have some responsibility to understand what the code is doing. I can totally see how this happened, and I would definitely not say that I would never make this mistake, especially under time pressure etc. But a careful programmer would a) desire to understand what the code did, and thus spend enough time re…

How many times have you run `npm install` or used literally any programming package management system without personally reading every line of code that you're installing?

If I'm going to use some library, at a minimum I read the API docs (getting a sense of the quality of the library from how well-thought-out the API is and how well-written the docs are). That's a long way from copy-pasting a few lines of code from SO without understanding what they do.

Furthermore, it's a lot easier to take the time to understand what a few lines of code from SO does than it is to audit a dependency thoroughly.

I have thankfully avoided the world of NPM, but when I've had to use it I've found it very difficult because a lot of packages don't really have API docs.

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by Dylan16807 »

jodrellblank wrote: post #176
Dylan16807 wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It would probably take you as much effort to get 50 rep as it's taken you to Yeah? So what. I shouldn't have to farm for rep. I'd even donate to charity to prove I'm not a bot. I don't want to spam the site with niche questions that nobody can even answer, or go hunting down popular questions to throw answers at that will actually get me points. > sour grapes That's not what sour grapes is.

> Yeah? So what. So whining that stackoverflow has rules which you don't want to follow doesn't make for interesting reading. It's not unfair; you (other commenter) are not hard done by. Don't want to get 50 rep? Then don't get 50 rep. Want to contribute? Get 50 rep it's not a lifelong commitment. Still don't want to get 50 rep? No problem, move on with your life. > I shouldn't have to farm for rep. You don't have to…

> So whining that stackoverflow has rules which you don't want to follow doesn't make for interesting reading.

Most complaints, even very good ones, are uninteresting reading.

> "I can't have stackoverflow on my terms, so I'm going to criticise and disparage it".

If complaining about not being to have something "on one's own terms" is enough to be sour grapes, then just about every complaint in the world is sour grapes. That's obviously wrong.

> It's not mandatory.

Did you honestly think I was saying it was mandatory? Come on, you can do better than that. "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation"

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by theshrike79 »

jordansmithnz wrote: post #6

Ha, stackoverflow is a great tool, but... the more answers I see on an area I’m experienced in, the more I realize how wrong they can be. Sure, the answer usually gets the job done, but everything else about it might not be right. If I need to use stackoverflow, these days I make sure I do a few things: - read a number of answers, comments included. Just because an answer is accepted doesn’t mean it’s the best one -…

The most important step in my opinion is: Check the date of the question and answer.

I've spent WAY too much time banging my head on the keyboard while trying to implement a solution posted 3-4 years ago, which doesn't apply in the slightest for the latest version of whatever I'm doing.

Re: Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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Post by stmL »

mperdoni wrote: post #109
cstuder wrote: post #20

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Say hello to `pasteoverflow`: Paste code from Stackoverflow directly into your editor. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=matsz.pa...

Can it go one meme-step further and automate our jobs away? ;)

Does this work ?

https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

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