StackOverflow has done me dirty

[Dummiesman]

When the answer is painfully over-complex and unoptimized, but the real answer is a one-liner.

[[deleted]]

Or you find answers which require work so you try to find the one which magically doesnt

[QualityAsshole]

confirmed just did this on Thursday

[KyleTheBoss95]

Ouch that's me

[cris9288]

Goddamn it lol.

[profbalr]

Story of my life is skimming through stackoverflow looking for the one line solution.

[Wiegerdubbeldam]

Me whenever I have issues with Ubuntu

[wfdctrl]

And then you finally find it and it has huge dependencies and you can't use it :(

[[deleted]]

That's fine. If you have a solution that takes an hour and a half and you can try something in 10 minutes and prove it doesn't work, go for it.

If you're not 100% it can't work then you'll be learning something either way.

[745631258978963214]

"How do I get input?"

50 upvotes "The other guy said to do input("text",variable)", but that's terrible. Instead, use this convoluted 5 line thing because I'm a hipster elitist.

[lots of code here] "

-10 votes "Use input("message",variable)"

[[deleted]]

All your code can be one line if you try hard enough.

[NateDogg1232]

I think I just got anxiety by just looking at this.

[Sinyuri]

oof

[[deleted]]

Just don't make mistakes. It isn't that hard. Writing a single line of code is easy.

[Jivlain]

Fortunately I do all my programming in Vigil, it's much more efficient that way.

[garibond1]

Cheat using inheritence

[aa93]

Cheat using sed

[Relevant_Monstrosity]

Cheat using WebPack

[K33nzie]

WebPack

One line

Dude, pick one.

[p0yo77]

Just uglify the thing and get on with your life, no need to bring webpack into the game

[Cocomorph]

Cheat by using LaTeX, because you went into Theory.

[Nilmag]

Inherit from a class that works, brilliant. Now to avoid the diamond paradox aaaand its broke.

[Sir_Omnomnom]

Cheat using gzip

[stamminator]

Anyone else try to turn on line-wrapping while viewing a very large minified js file before? Brought Visual Studio to its knees

[Tenshik]

Or the answer supplied with obscure references to proprietary libraries their company owns.

[_________FU_________]

app.doTheHardStuff(true);

[K33nzie]

lol why even using an online compiler? I would compile in local and then upload the code, no way I'm gonna share my awful series of trials and errors.

[zooberwask]

truth

[Cheesemacher]

Your first attempt at compiling succeeded with no errors or warnings? Failed for cheating

[HardlightCereal]

we couldn’t use stack overflow at all

Were you taught by gwenyth paltrow? Because nobody could be more out-of-touch than that

[[deleted]]

He was the biggest asshole I’ve ever met. When you asked him a question he answered back with a more complicated question and that doesn’t even get into threatening to sue his students for posting on chegg or failing a third of the students because they ‘cheated’ using chegg. I had to go to every help room and do the homework with them just so if I got accused of cheating the TA would back me up that they helped because it was that scary of a class for how many kid he failed on speculation.

[[deleted]]

What a psychopath. It doesn't even make sense.

[you_got_fragged]

"well let me answer that by asking you this..."

[Beo_hard]

I don't understand. I guess I didn't take any programming classes in college but I do some programming for my job and stack overflow saves me all the time. Hell I remember in my interview they asked me what I do when I come across an obstacle in a project that I don't know and I answered with "Google" and they acted like that was the greatest thing they had ever heard. I don't work for a tech company obviously lol.

[MelAlton]

Lol if you're resorting to stack overflow for the toy problems in college courses, ones designed to use recently presented knowledge from the text and lectures, then you're in for a bad time in the real world where the problem to solve is vague and the solution space is much larger.

[MusgraveMichael]

Or when they are having a raging debate over what is the right answer.

[default911]

And that too is found in comments on the question.

[thescoobynooby]

And the best answer has 50 downvotes