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You Google bubble is the most important asset.
I was routinely ask to search the same thing as a colleague. And I regularly got better answers since I trained my bubble on technical queries. While the other person had more interests and Google returned varied results.
So, if you get a hobby in landscaping, don't ruin your search bubble by polluting it with that.
Long-term, more important than Googling, is building a mental picture of 'who can be trusted to give solid advice or write great code'. Nowadays, I don't hit StackOverflow, but go to GitHub to look at what the best Software Engineers I know did to solve a problem. For each topic, there is somebody that comes to mind that I think is better than everybody else, and I look to them for direction.
For those who aren't aware: Google is a lesser-known competitor of the recommended search engine DuckDuckGo.
I know it was not the most important thing by a long shot, but having a named that is verbifiable was/is still handy. "Just google it". You can't do the same with other search tools. "Just bing it" is the closest, but "binging" is not only not an important skill, it's something they do on Netflix. Yahooing? Ducking? Dogpiling? Altavisting? Binging? The ability for the word 'google' to be transformed to multiple use c…
I know it was not the most important thing by a long shot, but having a named that is verbifiable was/is still handy. "Just google it". You can't do the same with other search tools. "Just bing it" is the closest, but "binging" is not only not an important skill, it's something they do on Netflix. Yahooing? Ducking? Dogpiling? Altavisting? Binging? The ability for the word 'google' to be transformed to multiple use c…
"Searching"?
You could just say 'Xerox these reports' and people knew what you meant, even if your office had a Ricoh copier.
What's often overlooked and omitted from this sort of guide is a person's ability to identify the trustworthiness and usefulness of a website that shows up in search results. It's not enough to juggle operands and search hacks. You also need to know which result to click. Another commenter suggested just searching for your error message. Try searching for "cannot read property of undefined" and scroll through the res…
We’re looking at this and students generally we look for the number of stages that need to be completed:
Identification of the need for new information
Searching and strategies for finding the needed information.
Assessment of the usefulness of the information
Evaluation of the credibility of the information
Use of the information to progress a project forward
Reflection on the process and identification of opportunities for improvement
I've (unfortunately) met senior managers that equate googling with incompetence, because they've assumed that coders who rely too much on google (or other search engines) simply can't or don't want to learn languages enough to do stuff by memory.
But, it's just a tool, like any other. I've worked with people that simply could not look up things, and would grind to a halt if they could not find any clues in their regular literature.
So far the most useful thing I have found has been the bangs from duckduckgo. With it I can avoid an additional search and go directly search the place I want to look whether that is python docs, rust docs, Wikipedia, reddit or Amazon. Heck I can forward myself directly to google too. All of this with just a !w, !a, !python3, !rust, !g added to my query. I understand why google doesn't support this, largely because t…
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