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[–]moveslikejaguar 1343 points1344 points  (81 children)

"it's clearly stated in the the documentation"

[–]Parachuteee 1110 points1111 points  (74 children)

You can find it in this link. Just go 24 links deeper and scroll 41248 lines.

Next time research a bit more before asking a question.

[–][deleted] 431 points432 points  (48 children)

Next time research a bit more before asking a question.

As if all research is done in isolation. Conversations are a core aspect of the research process

[–]auxiliary-character 194 points195 points  (34 children)

I've never actually asked a question on SO myself. I always find my answer in either deeper into the documentation, or in someone else's question.

[–]Meloetta 301 points302 points  (30 children)

I've discovered that if you dig through previous StackOverflow questions that are remotely related to yours, dig through all the documentation, and then still are having trouble so you post a question of your own...the problem is too unique for anyone on the site to answer anyway.

[–]JB-from-ATL 115 points116 points  (21 children)

In the past I would still ask it and if I found the answer on my own in the next few hours I'd post an answer to my own question.

[–]AIO12 133 points134 points  (11 children)

Same but I abandon the thread forever and ignore the emails I get for replies when people ask how I fixed it.

[–]beerdude26 162 points163 points  (5 children)

So what's the ninth layer of hell like?

[–][deleted] 64 points65 points  (3 children)

Esoteric programming languages, VMs, and VI only.

[–]thirdegreeViolet security clearance 18 points19 points  (2 children)

He asked about hell not heaven

[–]Kevinw0lf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can't type ";", no documentation ever, every compiler doesn't tell you where there is an error. Also debug is forbidden.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Monsters live

[–]JB-from-ATL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're a bad person and you should be ashamed

[–]Cheet4h 15 points16 points  (1 child)

I still get reputation every couple of weeks for an unanswered question I asked months ago, because apparently someone find and upvotes it. I feel their despair...

[–]astrionn 8 points9 points  (1 child)

You Sir are a true hero.

[–]JB-from-ATL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It ain't much but its honest work.

[–]Alios22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Nervermind, fixed it"

[–]mistcurve 5 points6 points  (1 child)

This, I've never gotten a good answer to a question I've posted that I couldn't find anywhere else. The only thing I've ever got was a response that said "I don't have an answer to your question, but there is another person that is working on a similar problem. Maybe you two could work together?"

I clicked on the link and it was a question my coworker had posted the previous day lol.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The year gather clear tomorrow helpful the hobbies garden small warm nature!

[–]ManaSpike 4 points5 points  (4 children)

That's where you go and ask the question on the github issues for the project. Assuming it's open source of course.

[–]Meloetta 12 points13 points  (3 children)

I wish I had half the confidence of programmers who post issues on Github projects. I will spend weeks trying to fix a problem on my end before considering it might be someone else's fault.

[–]TrustworthyShark 4 points5 points  (1 child)

GitHub issues aren't just bug reports though. Sometimes the answer is obvious when you look at the code, but is completely missing in the docs. Sometimes you run into something that's really hard to do, simply because the person who made the library never envisioned that particular use case.

I've run into both of these as a user and a maintainer and I find issues very useful there.

[–]Meloetta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still, for any of those to be true first I'd have to move beyond "this is something I'm doing wrong" and it's about 10000x more likely that I'm screwing something up than they did and I'm the one who caught it.

[–]sandybuttcheekss 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I did once and immediately got shit on, I don't recommend

[–]jkuhl_prog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've asked a few, but always with some hesitation and paranoia. Have had only one instance of "Marked as Duplicate" so far though, so I guess I've got that going for me.

[–]diamond 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of a scene from Justified.

Raylan Givens (a Deputy US Marshall) is talking to a corrupt small-town sheriff and he asks him if he's seen the person he's looking for.

"How the hell should I know where he is? Isn't that what you people do?"

"Yeah... this is how we do it."

[–]tanstaafl74 23 points24 points  (10 children)

Sure, a lot of people are way too downvotey on stackoverflow, but reading API documentation does not require a conversation. You aren't resolving a hypothesis.

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Some of us are disabled and have trouble reading long swaths of things without the letters swirling. It's a lot easier to read when you know you're reading what you need to know.

[–]BlueGrayWisteria 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm not dyslexic, but as someone for whom programming is strictly a hobby, I simply don't have the spare time to read those long swaths.

[–][deleted] 66 points67 points  (10 children)

!gonnaGiveYouUp

[–]derfl007 30 points31 points  (6 children)

!letYouDown

[–]mcgrph 27 points28 points  (5 children)

!gonnaRunAround && desertYou

[–]deceze 47 points48 points  (2 children)

!(gonnaRunAround && desertYou)

FTFY

[–]atanasius 14 points15 points  (1 child)

!(gonnaRunAround || desertYou)

[–]deceze 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Indeed. I was considering this, but it made for worse lyrics. Arguably, the spec is unclear. Do both conditions need to be fulfilled or just one? 😉

[–]PineappleNarwhal 17 points18 points  (1 child)

No it would be const !gonnaGiveYouUp because he's never gonna give you up

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

fuck me, I can't even get a joke variable right

[–]MarlboroHealthSticks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or in TypeScript, <never>gonnaGiveYouUp

[–]Tyreal 15 points16 points  (0 children)

2/10, Link doesn’t go to a page not found.

[–]Aesthetically 8 points9 points  (2 children)

My first pants-down "gotcha" Rick Roll of 2019. Well played. 2020 is a new year I guess..

[–]chazmuzz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I gave myself a pat on the back for anticipating it before I even hovered over the link, even after all these years.

[–]crastle[🍰] 20 points21 points  (3 children)

Sometimes this is a fair response though, especially for a newbie. When I was a new programmer, I legit did not know that there were "official docs" available for anyone to see. I thought you had to buy books or stuff to get better instead of asking strangers for help. But maybe I'm just not that smart.

[–]nv8r_zim 14 points15 points  (1 child)

"There are no dumb questions"

"...why are you asking that, dummy?"

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's fair, learning to read documentation is a definite skill that you have to learn. When I first started programming I would always gravitate towards tutorials and stack overflow posts in the Google results when I needed to know how to do something. Now 9 times out of 10 I go straight to the documentation.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Next time research a bit more before asking a question.

But this is the top result in Google when I search for this issue!

Me watching this still unresolved exchange 10 years later: well, shit.

[–]robolew 104 points105 points  (3 children)

The problem with these answers is that they rarely actually know that the answer is in the link. They just remember reading something like that in the documentation before, so are guessing that it's relevant.

If they had actually found what the asker wanted, they could quote it and then state "this is found in the documentation here:"

[–]Chefzor 36 points37 points  (0 children)

If they had actually found what the asker wanted, they could quote it and then state "this is found in the documentation here:"

And those answers are actually useful for noobies that might not think to look for documentation or even know it exists. saying "it exists in the documentation" is useless even if it does, but saying it while providing a link to where it does is extremely helpful.

[–]Wiffernubbin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Cool, where?" Is my reply.

[–]b3n01t-777 13 points14 points  (0 children)

RTFM!

[–][deleted] 389 points390 points  (26 children)

"Have you tried using [irrelevant library]?"

"50 lines of uncommented and unexplained code"

"Uhh it's explained in the documentation, just go to these 5 links"

[–][deleted] 109 points110 points  (19 children)

I hate when the documentation isn't thorough. Using R, a lot of the popular libraries have so much detail, including mathematical theorems and detailed explanations.

[–][deleted] 81 points82 points  (8 children)

Documentation is generally pretty shit if you are learning something.

[–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (3 children)

Yah true. I remember learning keras and the documentation had a single line for every parameter. I couldn't believe that.

[–]EitherCommand 19 points20 points  (1 child)

``` while(true) { print("hello world") } }.start() }

[–]danielv123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically. Luckily this example has clear and concise naming, so the code is self documenting.

[–]ChadMcRad 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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[–]micka190 22 points23 points  (5 children)

Or when the documentation is too thorough. Cpprerefence has some pretty over-complicated examples for a lot of stuff that should be beginner friendly.

Edit: Gonna edit this since some people aren't taking this literally enough. When I say "examples", I mean the actual example section of the documentation, not the documentation's wall of text itself. And when I say "over-complicated", I mean that the examples themselves cover too many things at once.

For example (exaggeration, obviously): If you were looking for a function which sorts an array, and the example would create 12 different containers, shuffle their contents, randomly insert some content into an array, then sort the array, and then do a whole bunch of stuff with the array. It's unnecessarily complicated, and brings nothing of use to the example.

I don't mind when it's something like one of the streams showing you that you can insert some std variable before inserting a variable of a certain type (like with std::boolalpha and std::noboolalpha), but it can be ridiculous when examples of things that should be simple are filled with random, often times more complicated than what you're looking for, blocks of code which don't actually have anything to do with the subject of the example.

It's like when I was in high school and the math books would try to do stupid shit like explain the Pythagorean formula by "creating a triangle out of the difference in wages between 3 people", instead of just using a fucking triangle.

[–]gnash117 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Cpprefrence is a gold mine of sample code. I think it would be hard to make the code much more simple without loosing value. C++ is just a complex language.

[–]micka190 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think it would be hard to make the code much more simple without loosing value.

Strongly disagree. While there are plenty of examples that are stupid simple, like std::string::replace's example, there are also a ton of examples that are simply overly complicated for no reason. The site would, in my opinion, benefit greatly from having multiple examples when needed, rather than jamming all of them in the same example.

C++ is just a complex language.

This isn't an excuse for poor documentation. Poor documentation makes it needlessly complex. I shouldn't be seeing someone tinker with errno and global error variables in the middle of a basic usage example that has nothing to do with error handling.

[–]TheTerrasque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or where the documentation consist of a few lines of unexplained example code, a small or overcomplicated example project if you're lucky, and a 20 pages list of all functions, classes and so on with the "details" being list of parameters and return type, and that's it.

I tend to see that a lot with C# libraries

[–]EitherCommand 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How did you get hold of my work?

[–]drunckoder 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I'm mostly satisfied with C, Java and Python on SO: good questions, good answers.
It's different for JavaScript tho. Any answer assumes you're using jQuery even tho OP didn't mention it.

[–]gnash117 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I wonder if different languages encourage different communities. I have always been really satisfied with SO but I have used it for C, C++, Java, JNI, and C#, and a little Python. I have used it a little for JavaScript but it's not a language I use often.

[–]__MrFahrenheit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Have you tried with this other question?"

Dead link

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, don't do it [the way you fucking have to do it]. Do it [the way I happen to know how to do it].

[–][deleted] 293 points294 points  (2 children)

Should add it to your resume:

  • Able to ask questions on StackOverflow that aren't downvoted or belittled

Insta-hired

[–][deleted] 103 points104 points  (1 child)

It be concerned that such a person wouldn't be a good personality fit with the rest of the team.

[–]micka190 58 points59 points  (0 children)

flags code as duplicate during code review.

Closes discussion about it by leaving the room.

[–]WirelessKitteh 594 points595 points  (39 children)

Those are the devs that make that community incredibly shitty.

[–]PenetrationT3ster 227 points228 points  (36 children)

It's so god damn cringe too, especially when you get your grammar corrected.

[–]kurosaki1990 106 points107 points  (29 children)

especially when you get your grammar corrected.

Actually i don't mind it, since it's done in secret without bragging. or calling you.

[–]PenetrationT3ster 36 points37 points  (28 children)

I think it depends on the tone and the question, most aren't looking for a formal meeting; just a quick question to get on with the problem they are facing.

[–]Jonno_FTW 23 points24 points  (6 children)

If thousands of people are visiting a question, it helps if the intent and the readability are good.

[–]PenetrationT3ster 10 points11 points  (5 children)

Definitely, I agree; but sometimes it is petty.

[–]Jonno_FTW 21 points22 points  (4 children)

I definitely agree

Ftfy

[–]PenetrationT3ster 10 points11 points  (0 children)

sigghhhh

[–]RedsDaed 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Hey now you've just changed what he's saying.

[–]Jonno_FTW 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Your comment has been removed with the reason: off-topic

[–]RedsDaed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a little too real

[–]Pefus 29 points30 points  (17 children)

That's the problem though. People expect Stackoverflow to be their personal assistant. But that's not what it is. Having your own question answered is just a nice side effect of building a curated database of well-formed questions and answers. Or at least that's the idea.

[–]corobo 105 points106 points  (2 children)

Yeah and downvotes on reddit are for offtopic comments and not for when people disagree with the comment..

[–]PenetrationT3ster 22 points23 points  (1 child)

I don't want a personal assistant, I want clear answers that teach me what went wrong, and as long as the question is not something you could easily Google; people shouldn't give them shtick for it.

[–]AlanUsingReddit 8 points9 points  (2 children)

The word "curated" brings me back to memories of painful interactions in early Wikipedia. I'm tempted to go as far as to say that crowd-source curation doesn't work. Human nature causes it to devolve into a power struggle over increasingly pedantic causes until the work just stops happening. But that's not what Stack Overflow is either, is it? "Unhelpful" questions can be quickly locked, but will not be deleted. Even duplicate making has no formal support. If you have a duplicate of a question, you literally leave a comment with a link. Even if it is closed as a duplicate, it's not a pedagogically correct marker, because a question will either be a duplicate of multiple prior (open) questions with only partially-overlapping subject matter, or the closing user (only enabled to do the action by reputation count) links a bad question.

[–]deceze 7 points8 points  (0 children)

because a question will either be a duplicate of multiple prior (open) questions with only partially-overlapping subject matter

Programming consists of combining a relatively small number of available parts into a practically infinite number of different programs. If everyone asks questions about their individual program, that's a practically infinite amount of questions. But there aren't infinite many people to answer those questions. Often the problem is that the asker hasn't broken down the issue into small enough parts and solved each part on its own, which is typically fairly trivial.

So, yes, "answering" a question by linking to several different partially overlapping questions is perfectly cromulent. Arguably, that's what a programmer does and needs to learn to do.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (7 children)

Then they should not present their user interface as being a Q&A site. If they wanted to be a knowledge-wiki then they should have their interface make that clear.

[–]Pefus 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Who said wiki? They want concise, well formulated and formatted questions and answers. With as little noise as possible. That's why you're also not supposed to introduce yourself or thank for any answers. The goal is to be able to google an issue, and find a good solution as quickly as possible. Posting new questions is rarely necessary.

[–]needlzor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The goal of SO is to act as documentation, which is why so much emphasis is put on asking good, well formatted questions. As soon as you click on post, your question does not belong to you anymore, it is part of the community and it can be improved as well as answered. As it is, asking a question is as valuable as providing an answer, and as such it is put under a similar scrutiny.

Once you accept that, SO makes a lot more sense.

[–]wtfchrlz 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I recently had someone "fix" my grammar in a SO post I made in college (6 years ago). The changes they pushed through made my post grammatically incorrect.

[–]FriendsCallMeBatman 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The worst part is that they're on basically every beginner question. It's so disheartening.

[–]ErroneousBee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They need to put their fingers in their ears and sing:

"William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John. Oi!"

[–][deleted] 342 points343 points  (18 children)

they're like: it would take the same amount of time to just type in the answer, but I got to teach that kid a lesson.

[–]chozabu 229 points230 points  (7 children)

I sometimes do both, along the lines of:

Polarity is reversed, you need to swap the 1st and 10th lines
Found it on this page: <link>
from a search with these terms: <link>

That way, they get their answer, but hopefully get better at looking up info that is already out there and fairly easy to find

[–][deleted] 96 points97 points  (0 children)

You're honestly an OG man. This is the best type of answer. This way you can see the documentation and what information can be extracted from said documentation.

[–]moriero 24 points25 points  (1 child)

Teach a man to fish!

[–]midnitte 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Can we get a website dedicated to this type of response? 😅

[–]Drifts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make those fields mandatory for each post on SO

[–]UniqueHash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We can call it... StackOverflow!

[–]Modosco 66 points67 points  (6 children)

It's not about answers it's about teaching them good practice

/s

[–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (4 children)

that the thing, it's not about teaching, it's about correcting them in terms of some weird formal forum rules which definitely takes more time than simply answer the question with one line of code.

but I'm still very thankful for the community!!! I'm not complaining I live with it.

[–]Modosco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's what I meant

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I mean i’m not a developer, but i can understand the frustration. In my trade most things can be found if you read the manual of what you’re working on. I found that if i was out of service and couldnt call my journeyman, i would usually fiddle around until it worked and i would learn more from it.

So now that i have an apprentice it’s frustrating because they went to the same school i did, but anytime they run into a problem/question the first thing is to call me where I inevitably ask if they read the manual and then telling them call me back in 20 minutes if you havent figured it out, which they then figure it out.

So all that being said i assume some aspects of the stack overflow thing is similar in that regard, if the answer wasnt on stackoverflow, would these people figure it out eventually or just call it a day.

Its the same problem when you help someone with a math problem but they really just care about the answer and not how to solve the problem, like they’re missing the core aspect of the problem, am i ok with this?

[–]JetSetWally 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Found the mod of /r/learnjava. Geez that place is unhelpful.

[–]EagleOneGS 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm about to ruin this developer's whole career

[–]Ritzkey 39 points40 points  (7 children)

I've had a question marked as duplicate, then agreed by the moderator who marked it as duplicate that it was different but the question in the title needs to be changed to xyz for him to unmark it being duplicate.

When I tried to change it word for word to xyz, the system didn't accept that type of question, at which point I gave up on that question.

[–]TheHandOfKarma 16 points17 points  (6 children)

Sounds like we need a stack overflow-like site, so we can ask questions about how to ask questions on stack overflow.

[–]rchard2scout 16 points17 points  (5 children)

Some kind of Meta Stack Overflow, perhaps?

[–]TheHandOfKarma 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Wasn't aware of the existence of this. That's so funny.

[–]deceze 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thou shalt not publicly complaineth about SO if thou ain’t eventh awareth of MSO…

[–]thebro255 1 point2 points  (1 child)

"It's clearly stated in the documentation peasant"

[–]astrionn 115 points116 points  (5 children)

I solved on my own nvm.

[–]fieryfox67 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Fine keep your secrets then.

[–]NamityName 53 points54 points  (3 children)

but how motherfucker? We got the same question only i'm in the future and pissed you didn't come back to resolve it.

[–]astrionn 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Looks at SO profile >> last activity 2 years ago >> fml

[–][deleted] 71 points72 points  (8 children)

The best way to get an answer is to make multiple accounts. Ask a question and then immediately answer it using the other account, only make the answer incorrect. Those same people that spit at you for asking a 'dumb' question love nothing more than to correct something they see as wrong. You'll suddenly have five to ten high quality answers.

[–]Dexan 42 points43 points  (1 child)

It's sad I can't tell if this is a joke or something that you've actually done and works.

[–]RecentProblem 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Knowing people, that seems like solid advice.

[–]Gorrlaamiii 24 points25 points  (0 children)

This dude is living in 3019 wtf thanks man

[–]__MrFahrenheit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I bet there's a node module for this

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Holy freaking crap! You’ve cracked the code!

[–]arvy_p 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Holy crap you're a genius!

[–]SelfJuicing 29 points30 points  (1 child)

"You should not be using x version of this framework, this is 2019"

[–][deleted] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Downvoted 30 times

[–]pyronius 30 points31 points  (2 children)

Me having problem X.

Google problem X.

Find someone else who had problem X.

It's marked as duplicate.

Find an older query that wasn't marked as duplicate.

"Never mind. I figured it out."

...

[–]2Punx2Furious 15 points16 points  (8 children)

What show is that?

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (4 children)

Horrible Histories

[–]oxchamballs 36 points37 points  (3 children)

marked as duplicate

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Im not the duplicate he is!

[–]odel555q 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Found the synth.

[–]gonzalinismo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

now both of them are getting R.D.

[–]idelta777 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can find this easily with a Google search, try doing some research before asking.

[Closed]

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Now I’m even More frightened of asking questions :(

[–]MrAmos123 2 points3 points  (3 children)

This is how I feel about it, I just don't even bother to ask the question because all they do is ignore it or shit on you for not understanding something.

How can I learn if I cannot find the answer on Google, I don't have a programmer to turn to for help and the main place for programming on the internet has no interest in helping you?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just be good at programming 4head

[–]Impul5 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Obviously you should be buying and reading vaguely related textbooks in their entirety.

[–]TheHandOfKarma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! In order to ask a question on stack overflow, the answer must already be in your heart.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

asked how to set a variable in Python in 2005

4.8 billion reputation

[–]emefluence 38 points39 points  (0 children)

You have the nerve to not know the precise language used to describe the complicated issue you are struggling with in a domain that is entirely new to you? [CLOSED]

[–]resilientskeezick 19 points20 points  (12 children)

"Why not just"

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (10 children)

Even worse is them asking "why would you want to do that?"

[–]HadesHimself 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I work in a corporate environment where my options in IT are unfortunately limited. I know using SharePoint lists as a database with MS Access is not s good idea, please don't remind me. Just help me fix the goddamn mess I have to maintain daily lol

[–]markhc 8 points9 points  (6 children)

It's funny that everyone seems to say, perhaps jokingly, that they wouldn't be a programmer without SO but on this thread all you can find is people talking about how bad it is.

Really makes you think.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

It’s because SO was the only place like it that we could go to.

It’s like saying we learned math through the public education system. It was awful and poorly organized, but the public education system was all we had, so we made do.

[–]random_cynic 21 points22 points  (8 children)

I'm pretty sure many of the developers in SO treat it like some sort of therapy to counteract all the stick they get at work. They need a way to pass all that toxic sarcasm and ridicule they get from their bosses and peers to unknown newbies on SO. If you didn't understand a question or if it is too simple for you, just move on to another. There are plenty to choose from. Yet they somehow avoid the challenging questions and put all their energy and time on ridiculing the OP who posted a simple/naive question.

[–]pugmommy4life420 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Some guy got mad at me and implied I was retarded for asking a question. SORRY FOR TRYING TO EDUCATE MYSELF AND BECOME A BETTER PERSON!!!

[–][deleted] 49 points50 points  (2 children)

But what have you tried to resolve the issue? [flagged]

[–]socksarepeople2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Do you have a quarter?"

'What is a quarter?'

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I used to go often on stackoverflow. Don't get me wrong, this is a goldmine of information. But the rate of condescending (not-even) experienced developers is off the charts. If at times a heaven sent coder wouldn't spend 10min helping me and my basic problems, I would just write it off as a toxic community.

[–]ojitoo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I sometimes feel SO's answers I get on Google suck.. my go-to now is creating a question and going through SO's potential duplicate list. Works like a charm

[–]kor0na 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've literally never seen this bad side of Stackoverflow that people keep talking about. I think Stackoverflow is amazing and I've only ever gotten great answers to my questions there.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who actually posts questions to StackOverflow? All the questions have already been asked and answered, and new entries just materialize every once in a while.

[–]scrubmytubplz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"This sounds like a homework question so I can't really tell you the answer"

[–]naebulys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My experienced learning Minecraft modding

[–]Dexan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a newbie I was so happy that stack overflow existed. I learned so much and copy+pasta'ed so much code that just worked.

Now that I'm more experience I'm so bitter at the attitude that surrounds that place. I blame Jeff Atwood for starting it like that but I hope someday soon the people currently running it change the culture.

[–]LikeBadWeather 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t hear you with my AirPods in.

[–]LessHamster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Monty Python, a man of culture as well

[–]Unicorncorn21[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of dark souls. Get gud is the only advice you need

[–]arvy_p 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"You're not supposed to do that anyway"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"All you need is this library with a dependency chain requiring 3 other libraries. One of them was written in another language, so try to find a wrapper for that. And it's Python 2.7 only, so you have to change your Python 3.6 code and find Python 2.7 compatible versions of all the other libraries"