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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 bilekas »

CJefferson wrote: post #24
matsemann wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not add a fifth point about contribute with a better answer if you know better? It feels wrong looking down on people just trying to help.

The problem is stackoverflow seems designed to avoid "better answers". Questions are often long abandoned, and the original questioner won't come back and choose a new correct answer. On a rarely looked at question, it would take years for a correct answer to raise up the ranks. I've seen various answers which used cryptography dangerously, and asked if there was any way they could be fixed, and I just got the answer…

> The problem is stackoverflow seems designed to avoid "better answers".

SO is perfectly happy to accept better answers, especially to those which have gone stale and perhaps no longer applicable.

If you are offering further information that can benefit the reader its always welcome.

Its one of the reasons a lot of the more concise answers are not always the accepted answers. Because people do ask quite often : "Okay but why did that fix it"

In-fact : Answering without giving a proper reason for the solution is frowned upon mostly.

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

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Post by Havoc »

kstenerud wrote: post #10

> homework assignment for all programmers reading this thread: Think about how you'd find this bug in your own programs. You copy/paste the code, it seems to work, and you don't realize it's broken because you don't run either of these programs which made the same mistake. Wait... WHAT?? Who the hell copy pastes code into their program without first examining and understanding what each step is actually doing, how an…

>Who the hell copy pastes code into their program without first

Millions upon millions of people learning via googling

But yeah hopefully not in production & ideally sandboxed

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

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Post by tclancy »

CJefferson wrote: post #24
matsemann wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not add a fifth point about contribute with a better answer if you know better? It feels wrong looking down on people just trying to help.

The problem is stackoverflow seems designed to avoid "better answers". Questions are often long abandoned, and the original questioner won't come back and choose a new correct answer. On a rarely looked at question, it would take years for a correct answer to raise up the ranks. I've seen various answers which used cryptography dangerously, and asked if there was any way they could be fixed, and I just got the answer…

I've gotten multiple Tumbleweed badges for answering an old question with a better answer. You can't blame the system for the fact someone who either long ago fixed the problem or gave up doesn't come back to change the "correct" answer.

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

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Post by SteveSmith16384 »

bitwize wrote: post #46
rvschuilenburg wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> read API docs for anything I’m unfamiliar with One of the differences i've noticed between myself and some of the junior devs i've worked with. I would usually use the official docs as my first resource, and they would use stack overflow instead.

But what if the docs suck, as is the case with a lot of .io domain libraries?

And anything MS?

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

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Post by danpalmer »

LeonM wrote: post #40

I think it would be a great addition for StackOverflow to have a sort of report button for dangerous code. Take for example libcurl (thus, implementation in PHP, Ruby, Go, etc). There are sooo many posts with cURL example code where CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER is disabled. These are often answers with thousands of upvotes, that have been there for years. Inexperienced developers copy/paste this code into production withou…

> Inexperienced developers copy/paste this code into production without understanding what it does.

Also those with less English ability may not understand the comments that call out code as being wrong, reading the comments may be too high effort to happen naturally.

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

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Post by moomin »

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.

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

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Post by nalllar »

rvschuilenburg wrote: post #35
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 -…

> read API docs for anything I’m unfamiliar with One of the differences i've noticed between myself and some of the junior devs i've worked with. I would usually use the official docs as my first resource, and they would use stack overflow instead.

once have a working dev environment, external docs are the last place to look.

IDE type search and doc comments are much more likely to be useful.

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

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Post by quantummkv »

exikyut wrote: post #31
viraptor wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mouse./keyboard customisation software seems universally bad / lowest-bidder style. Logitech's mouse button configuration tool for example weights over 400MB. Literally for a tool which requires a few dropdowns.

Oooh. What does it have in it? A home-made .NET-to-Java transpiler that requires custom builds of the CLR and JVM? The 300MB of random data at the end of the Windows XP install CD? An encrypted archive containing the set of folders comprising the entire source code history (the top level of which has an alarming number of entries named like "revert_v5_bug [Final] - ACTUAL CURRENT") (because some developer has OCD abo…

Given the state of Modern Software Development, It's most probably Electron.

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

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Post by u801e »

rvschuilenburg wrote: post #35
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 -…

> read API docs for anything I’m unfamiliar with One of the differences i've noticed between myself and some of the junior devs i've worked with. I would usually use the official docs as my first resource, and they would use stack overflow instead.

I use a combination of both. I'll find something on stack overflow, and then look it up in the official documentation. In other words, treat stack overflow like a sophisticated index to a reference rather than as a reference itself.

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

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Post by asynch8 »

kstenerud wrote: post #10

> homework assignment for all programmers reading this thread: Think about how you'd find this bug in your own programs. You copy/paste the code, it seems to work, and you don't realize it's broken because you don't run either of these programs which made the same mistake. Wait... WHAT?? Who the hell copy pastes code into their program without first examining and understanding what each step is actually doing, how an…

honestly, i think it would be easier to count the people that DO read every thing line of code they copy
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