I No Longer Need StackOverflow
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I No Longer Need StackOverflow
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Re: I No Longer Need StackOverflow
#2Congratulations!
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#3On one hand, I don't need SO much either. I mostly go there to answer questions, not to ask them or research them.
On the other hand, SE has some really great sites where I can get really good reviews of stuff I am working on by other people other people who know their stuff (I use dba.stackexchange.com this way).
Re: I No Longer Need StackOverflow
#4When SO's down, all the programmers grind to a halt. When HN's down, all of them accelerate to levels normally unseen.
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#5Is 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. Doesn't happen a lot; once every few months or so, but when it happens, putting a bounty on Stackoverflow is a really nice option to have.
Are there really people who check Stackoverflow every single day of programming?
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#6On one hand, I don't need SO much either. I mostly go there to answer questions, not to ask them or research them. On the other hand, SE has some really great sites where I can get really good reviews of stuff I am working on by other people other people who know their stuff (I use dba.stackexchange.com this way).
I mostly go there to answer questions, not to ask them or research them
2nd. After getting so many good answers from there (which is btw not exactly the same as needing SO, there are other sites and resources out there, SO is just by far the fastest and most convenient way out there), I feel a need to give things back. I admit in the beginning that feel was driven by rep. But once there was more than 10k next to my name I stopped caring that much and just wanted to help people. Especially those with weird hard to figure out problems in some specialized domains.
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#7Well looks like the poster doesn't use SO quite well on a normal day then.
What you describe as a newfound way to program is actually what should be considered normal. SO isn't about getting an answer to some code problem or your homework or something like that.
To benefit from SO you should have an informed question that displays a good degree of personal research. THEN it's time to tap for the collective developer mind and be enlightened.
Re: I No Longer Need StackOverflow
#8There is nothing wrong in needing SO.
I totally agree with the article that the initial source of documentation should not be SO though. Want to learn something? Yeah, then SO is not the starting place. Grab the tool, read the docs, browse the forums, engage with the community.
But sometimes there is no forums, or they are almost dead. Sometimes you want to know how other people are using that tool. Sometimes you don't find the answer to your question in the tool's forums and sometimes you got into trouble and can't figure out the issue by yourself. Even sometimes you've come up with a wonderful solution and that solution might actually be a mess but you haven't found out yet.
SO is an awesome and thrilling community that can help in all the above situations. So, in my opinion there is nothing wrong in using it to validate what you are doing or to find a solution to that annoying issue you are having or to simply help others. But yes, not really the starting point for learning something in my opinion. I don't think that is its intent either.
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#9I consider my self an experienced programmer, but I would estimate that I use SO at least a few times a day, when programming. It's usually through a Google search, but nonetheless. I also find information in other places of course, but I really think that site heightened the quality of available information remarkably.
Re: I No Longer Need StackOverflow
#10On one hand, I don't need SO much either. I mostly go there to answer questions, not to ask them or research them. On the other hand, SE has some really great sites where I can get really good reviews of stuff I am working on by other people other people who know their stuff (I use dba.stackexchange.com this way).
I mostly go there to answer questions, not to ask them or research them 2nd. After getting so many good answers from there (which is btw not exactly the same as needing SO, there are other sites and resources out there, SO is just by far the fastest and most convenient way out there), I feel a need to give things back. I admit in the beginning that feel was driven by rep. But once there was more than 10k next to my n…
I find that answering questions on SO or some other forum, is actually a good way to get smarter about a topic. Or just keep sharp. So it doesn't have to be an all altruistic effort.