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Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

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Post by simion314 »

therusskiy wrote: post #11

many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.

Today I had an issue and I also had a solution in mind, but I still used SO to find alternative solutions, in the end others had same workaround solution as me but sould have been great for my case if the workaround was not needed.

IMO "use the documentation" is not enough, many times you have much more complex question or bugs/problems where if lucky other individuals hit them before you and were kind enough to share their findings. I upgraded my Ubuntu version and now some people decided that is safer and smarter to move the /tmp in apache to some other place but at the same time hide it from me, I am not sure what man page search query for "my file is not in /tmp but the system is telling me is there" will give you the results.

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

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Post by Bayart »

therusskiy wrote: post #11

many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.

Github issues have also largely replaced SO for me when it comes to failure modes (production tasks). But it's relevant for development when you want to learn how to extract a certain behaviour from a given tool. It's a treasure trove of obscure capabilities, especially when it comes to older versions of tools you've got to work with in production.

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

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Post by tnzk »

therusskiy wrote: post #11

many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.

How frequent you refer SO depends on simply how crowded the field you're working, and nothing else.

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

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Post by alex_sf »

I know it's the tacky thing to say, but: I feel like StackOverflow has gotten worse over the past couple years. The questions and answers are both lower quality.

It's possible that Google is leading me astray since that's typically how I'll find Q&As on there, but I don't see the same issue on the other sites in the Stack network.

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

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Post by _Algernon_ »

applefangirl wrote: post #15
therusskiy wrote: post #11

many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.

Same. I've downloaded most of the documentation I need to answer day to day questions, and try to limit my use of search engines. Finding most of my answers is faster in the local references I'm familiar. The Internet is my last resort.

Can I ask you what workflow you use for this? Any particular tools? What do you do for documentation that doesn't provide a download?

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

#27

Post by boredtofears »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #22
therusskiy wrote: post #11

many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.

We can't all be 100x, God's gift to computer science, engineers like you.

All it takes to be a 100x engineer these days is to read actual source/docs?

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

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Post by trollied »

alex_sf wrote: post #25

I know it's the tacky thing to say, but: I feel like StackOverflow has gotten worse over the past couple years. The questions and answers are both lower quality. It's possible that Google is leading me astray since that's typically how I'll find Q&As on there, but I don't see the same issue on the other sites in the Stack network.

Their best engineer went to work for Microsoft https://nickcraver.com/ As did their SRE SQL Server DBA. I don't know if their replacements are up to speed.

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

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Post by glmdev »

simion314 wrote: post #21
therusskiy wrote: post #11

many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.

Today I had an issue and I also had a solution in mind, but I still used SO to find alternative solutions, in the end others had same workaround solution as me but sould have been great for my case if the workaround was not needed. IMO "use the documentation" is not enough, many times you have much more complex question or bugs/problems where if lucky other individuals hit them before you and were kind enough to shar…

system-d private tmp has entered the chat

Re: StackOverflow Is Having Issues

#30

Post by Kwpolska »

trollied wrote: post #28
alex_sf wrote: post #25

I know it's the tacky thing to say, but: I feel like StackOverflow has gotten worse over the past couple years. The questions and answers are both lower quality. It's possible that Google is leading me astray since that's typically how I'll find Q&As on there, but I don't see the same issue on the other sites in the Stack network.

Their best engineer went to work for Microsoft https://nickcraver.com/ As did their SRE SQL Server DBA. I don't know if their replacements are up to speed.

Stack Overflow’s engineers aren’t writing the questions and the answers. How is your comment related?
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