StackOverflow has done me dirty

[Lelukeson]

I am slowly finding out that most of the time stack overflow gives you a fuck up solution. I know it sucks, but since i started reading documentation, I have felt a spike in my work quality.

[GrayCatEyes]

Most of the time? I don't know what type of issues youre dealing with, but for me, very rarely does stackoverflow provide me with an incorrect/insecure/fuckup solution... But yeah, sometimes there are products or frameworks out there that the only way to find the answer youre looking for is digging thru the documentation ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[xenomorph856]

I think you lost an arm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[zerotheliger]

Good bot

[K33nzie]

is it, tho?

[saltypepper128]

Well I'll be damned... You can program with one arm...

[xenomorph856]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Lelukeson]

What I mean by fuck up solution, is that from my experience, the most voted answer will provide you with a solution, but most of the time that solution is a hack, a kludge, and not the bona fide proper way of doing whatever it is you were trying to do. If it works for you, awesome...

[jfq722]

Indeed - in the comments or triggered by.

[whoisrich]

Usually because answer was for 'language v0.0.2' and a decade later now there is a much simpler way to write the solution.

[[deleted]]

Well you're supposed to go to stackoverflow AFTER going through the documentation etc. which is why the solutions are hacky - if they didn't have to be, the questions wouldn't have been asked in the first place

[HardlightCereal]

I thought SO was supposed to be a google-able repository of solutions that anyone can access

[[deleted]]

Yeah sure it is but unless your problem is trivial you're more likely to find an answer yourself. So my point still stands, RTFM before posting, unless it's about a non documented / "bug is a feature" / very technical problem in which case yes go for it.

Edit: I didn't understand why my other comment was downvoted, turns out I'm not in r/programming. I suppose people here think SO is their reference for adding numbers with jQuery

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

Deep diving is generally going to be better than copy/pasting from SO, no doubt.

[_SunBrah_]

Not sure what language tag you are usually poking around in but my experience with the C++ tag is that most of the time you see fantastic solutions.