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I no longer need the Internet. My hamster chewed through a CAT cable last week; it took me three days to notice, so complete was my Zen immersion in creating a period-accurate replica of the first Galilean telescope, using only Haskell lenses. When it finally dawned on me I had attained a sophistication that transcended the internet, I felt the inessentials fall away from my craft in an instant, and I was left in an…
Is not using something for a single day a sign you never need it? I sometimes don't refer to SO for weeks, simply because I'm dealing with problems I can figure out without it. But sometimes I'm dealing with something I'm totally unfamiliar with, and docs and tutorials are badly written, and then some example on Stackoverflow can be a great help. And more importantly, sometimes I'm stuck on something really obscure.…
> Are there really people who check Stackoverflow every single day of programming? http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/83/fanatic
I learnt from electronics.stackexchange in the other direction: I applied my fragmentary knowledge to answering questions, as a hobby. A combination of googling, helping the questioner improve their question, and basic thinking has resulted in me getting about 10k rep and broadening my knowledge quite a bit. My top-voted answers are surprisingly general: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/97277/when-ca...…
Generally Stack Exchange doesn't really reward answers to hard problems because they don't get the same kind of exposure than the beginner-type questions and their answers.
I no longer need the Internet. My hamster chewed through a CAT cable last week; it took me three days to notice, so complete was my Zen immersion in creating a period-accurate replica of the first Galilean telescope, using only Haskell lenses. When it finally dawned on me I had attained a sophistication that transcended the internet, I felt the inessentials fall away from my craft in an instant, and I was left in an…
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It's not always a question of "needing" something, it's a question of whether you spend 5 minutes searching for the answer or 50 minutes, or 5 hours. It's a tool. Use it.
Yeah, I suppose I could have spent a few hours learning the ins and outs of the library, but finding that all I really really needed was "draggable: false" on SO saved a good chunk of time.
It's not always a question of "needing" something, it's a question of whether you spend 5 minutes searching for the answer or 50 minutes, or 5 hours. It's a tool. Use it.
Convenience is good but i have to agree with him on this one. Understanding the technology in a deeper way is a lot more useful in the long run. And once you understand it answering other questions you may have gets a lot easier and arguably that 5 hour investment in the beginning may be a bargain. He spends 5 hours to understand it first you spend 5-10 minutes on each question and you may run into dozens if not hund…
I don't know about your situation specifically, but in general....it may be more useful to you personally in the long run, but the person that signs your paycheck might be more interested in only what's most economically useful for the company while you are employed there.
I no longer need the Internet. My hamster chewed through a CAT cable last week; it took me three days to notice, so complete was my Zen immersion in creating a period-accurate replica of the first Galilean telescope, using only Haskell lenses. When it finally dawned on me I had attained a sophistication that transcended the internet, I felt the inessentials fall away from my craft in an instant, and I was left in an…
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