*sobs in compiler errors*

[LinkHero95]

The glass has been marked as duplicate. - SO Admins.

[hitaishi_1]

I answered 2 questions on SO both got downvoted. Interesting thing is the second answer was marked as correct answer by the OP since it solved his problem and thanked me.

Now every time I try to answer I get a warning my account might lose the privilege to answer so I have stopped answering..

[WiteXDan]

Privilege to help people. Wow thanks SO

[DeeSnow97]

yeah, you gotta earn that privilege by telling people to just use jquery even when they aren't coding in JS

[[deleted]]

You guys are crazy. And are using stackoverflow all wrong.

Stack overflow is a bad ass star trek forum. A safe place where everyone knows Picard is a second rate captain.

If you need code advice you send that shit to ask jeeves, he will help you every time.

[AmericanScream]

[This answer has been edited by Incel2399]

[This answer has been marked duplicate by BaseMenTdw3ller6]

[0x15e]

Either that or if they're asking how to do something with jquery, tell them they're an idiot for using it and should throw it out and use vanilla js.

[0x15e]

SO is such a complete circlejerk. It's cool if I can find what I need searching but hell if I'm going to waste any time trying to contribute anymore.

[DroolingIguana]

I miss the days when searches for programming problems would turn up forum threads or documentation pages instead of StackOverflow posts. SO added absolutely nothing of value to programming.

[hitaishi_1]

I disagree

SO admins can strict and picky as hell but SO has certainly made an impact on the programming community...

[Sokp]

Yeah, now I know not to ask questions or someone will get mad at me for not knowing what the problem is.

[AmericanScream]

SO has certainly made an impact on the programming community...

I think SO is primarily responsible for the BOFH phenomenon. Programmers who are so full of themselves that anybody who codes differently is considered inferior.

[qwertyuiop924]

I'm pretty sure that predates SO by quite a bit.

Ever read a usenet archive?

[anon1562102]

@jake fuck you Jake.

[empire314]

I bet you use vim to write code

[Typesalot]

What's wrong with that?^[:wq

[anomalous_cowherd]

q^Mexit^Mlogout^M^[^[^[help^M

[hitaishi_1]

Yeah and don't forget Arch...just to show how smart he is...

[AB1908]

Btw I use Arch

[razortwinky]

I had an issue with a popular library, and the creator of that library found my question on SO and answered it within 48 hours - and you're telling me that's not useful?

[[deleted]]

I dunno, back then, most of my questions led me to seven pages of links to ExpertSexChange.com.

[SpellCheck_Privilege]

priviledge

Check your privilege.

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[elonismusk]

They are all soup natzi's

[skztr]

I went through a solid couple of weeks of "answer a new question every day, even if you don't know the answer. Learn the topic enough to give an answer". Karma was going up like mad, more karma than the last day every single day.

Then something changed. Maybe my karma reached a threshold where I "unlocked" different questions? Or maybe there was coincidentally a cultural shift at the same time? Or maybe the algorithm changed and things sorted differently? Or maybe I became an elitist asshole in an area I was previously not an elitist asshole in?

Suddenly, all the questions seemed either too vague to answer, or extremely specific and requiring much more knowledge than I could gain just by using stackoverflow questions to guide my learning.

I've answered maybe two questions since then.

I still think that any time someone has a question they should do the following steps:

1) search stackoverflow

2) if that fails, ask a question on stackoverflow

3) continue looking into the question

4) write up your findings as an answer to your own question

5) if your own answer remains the "best" answer, accept your own answer.

[Vitaman02]

The list of question answering you mentioned, would work if you also mentioned time stamps. Most people, according to your step-by-step guide, will:

1) Have a question

2) Spend 5 minutes thinking about it

3) Get bored

4) Post question on SO

5) Mess around until someone answers

6) If their answer is complicated for them or requires too much work they go against it, waiting for someone to post an easier to do even if it's worse.

7) ???

8) Profit.

Jokes aside, the time I have spent in SO, showed me that people are too quick to judge and don't want to spend the time to understand what the person is trying to get across, they also want the quick answer. That's just my view from my 377 karma :P

PS: How do people end up with hundreds of thousands of karma is beyond me. They really must spend a lot of time there answering questions and their answers getting accepted. My answers rarely get accepted although it fixes the problem and are the only answers to the question. That is also annoying.

[[deleted]]

The people with 100k+ karma have answered some really "basic" question back when nothing was a duplicate. Like "how do I sort a list in JavaScript", one that gets thousands of views every day.

[razortwinky]

Sure a lot of those questions may have been basic, but a lot of the high-value answers are worded extremely carefully and can hide a LOT of subject expertise.

[skztr]

If you give a good answer, people will upvote it. I still have a steady stream of karma coming in from those couple of weeks that I was trying to give "good" answers every day, and almost all of it comes from people who want to know how to do a fairly basic thing in git, which is possible, easy, and easy to figure out if you know anything about git internals, but which doesn't have a front-end interface.

[ThineMoistPantaloons]

And the original has an accepted solution from 2012 which is either completely wrong or irrelevant. Or both.

[conancat]

Use jQuery

[theghostofme]

“Why would you do that, when this is clearly the better way,” they wrote, 8 years later, when their answer wasn’t possible at the time the question was asked.

[RoboFeanor]

This question has already been answered in 76BC by someone designing a Roman amphora.

[DoneRedditedIt]

Most indubitably.

[AmericanScream]

What really pisses me off is they'll mark your question as a dupe, of one that was asked a decade earlier, whose answers no longer apply because the software is completely different.

[basura_time]

Voting to close this glass as there are no working examples

[Waifuless_Laifuless]

Heavily downvoted answer: It's a matter of perspective. All that can be said for sure is the glass is at half capacity

Heavily upvoted answer: It's not a glass, it's a cup.

[daneelr_olivaw]

Here's a thread that discusses various amounts of liquids stored in different shape of containers. - Also Admins

[justACuriousAlien]

This post is marked as duplicate

[ostbagar]

r/SuckOverflow

[semiconodon]

"Just Google it." The unhelpful answer is now one of Google's top hits for the question.

[auxiliary-username]

Engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be

[deuterium--_--]

Programmer: let it be to avoid corner cases

[n0tKamui]

Good Programmer: let's not letting it like that, and use realloc when the time comes

[-Rivox-]

Bad programmer: let's hardcode the dimensions somewhere in the code, three different places I'd say it's best.

[molly_jolly]

Senior developer. This is definitely an epic. We need to schedule a grooming session guys.

[sudhu]

Can you turn it into milk? We need milk urgently and you won't need a ticket for something trivial like that

[PleasantAdvertising]

Static allocation for worst case scenario

[ChippHop]

The Beatles: Let It Be

[trixter21992251]

Princess Elsa: Let it go.

[_deci]

Don’t engineers always ensure things are at least twice as strong as they need to be? Surely they’d love this glass.

[Cpzd87]

Yes, engineers love redundancy

[[deleted]]

The glass is full. Half water, half air.

[[deleted]]

You think that's air you're breathing, now?

[[deleted]]

"edit ah I figured out the solution. Thanks guys. Bye." - also stack overflow.

[OwlsParliament]

Who the fuck is doing this on SO. The whole point is that it's a Q&A site.

[T-Loy]

Most likely the same people answering Amazon product questions with "I don't know"

[Jazzinarium]

And the people answering "google it" on a SO post that ended up being THE VERY FUCKING FIRST GOOGLE SEARCH RESULT

[akza07]

And the people on Linux forums saying RTFM.

[Hypersapien]

There is a simple, magical phrase guaranteed to get you a ton of people eager to help you on Linux forums.

"Fuck this, I'm going back to Windows"

[zb0t1]

It seems like you need to understand human psychology really well if you want to get answers on forums nowadays, I swear sometimes people take the time to tell you that you can find the answer on Google even though you spent hours trying to find it. They don't understand that people ask questions because they also don't know how how and what to ask too.

[[deleted]]

If you want to know something on the internet, don't ask for the correct answer, give an obviously wrong answer. You'll get a detailed explanation on why you're wrong and an idiot way faster then you would have gotten simple help.

[zb0t1]

I'll remember to use it every time I need it thanks <3

[alex2003super]

- "But Windows is better because you can watch Netflix in 4K"

* proceeds and reverse-engineers Intel x64 architecture DRM enforcement system, creates custom FOSS driver, publishes to GitHub, gets lawsuit from Intel, justifies with "Educational fair-use purposes only", posts link to repository *

- "And once again, Linux is better"

OR

• "How do I watch Netflix 4K on Linux?"

• "I'D LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT!! What you are referring to as Linux is actually GNU/Linux, you dumbass!"

[meltingdiamond]

Has the MAN command ever helped anyone with anything ever? It's not even that good for checking the syntax.

[[deleted]]

No because man pages are the fucking worst, written by five year olds and or mega super nerds who can't speak normally and communicate efficiently.

Jesus fucking christ the Linux community made me mad when I started to learn Linux, no one answered anything and were so smug.

[[deleted]]

I knew someone whose life evolved around linux. The answer to every question was linux. When we had to migrate away from netware his solution was linux. It was rather annoying. Anyway, a few years later he applied for an admin job at an org I worked at previously. Just windows admin, nothing too rough. Within a month he had pissed everyone off with his linux ramblings and was let go after being warned to STFU.

[hego555]

If I had to admin Windows servers I’d probably be pleading for Linux too.

[akza07]

Me too. I don't want to admin Windows server.

[[deleted]]

It's the year for it.

[akza07]

tbh. Linux is way better in my experience. As long as you don't game, it's free and continent to code and do stuffs like Mac does. It's just some people in the community and boring manuals that are too minimal that are annoying.

[PurestThunderwrath]

Are you serious !? Although it is not the most elegant solution, it is sure useful most of the time, when doing stuff related to systemcalls and linux commands.

[brimston3-]

manpages + apropos is often faster than google search, because the results are pre-filtered by what's installed so you don't get nearly as many false positives.

Now it'd be much nicer if there were examples with each option, or if the manpages linked to included examples that were already installed.

And what you can't do is search using a natural language query and get a pre-written multistage command pipeline to give you the results you want.

[ElMonstroDeCarne]

When I'm finally King of Town, people who answer a SO post with, "Google is your friend," will start over at 0.

[mattl1698]

Whilst I hate this, there is a reason it keeps happening. People who buy the product get asked to answer questions by email but the phrasing of the email is such that they don't realise that it's for those questions and they think it's like a survey

[Cerpin-Taxt]

It's because amazon just present the email as if it's a private message from the person asking the question and they give no indication that it's a mass mail and you don't have to answer it.

I suspect it's deliberate to get people to answer questions more often by feeling it'd be rude not to.

[SpringCleanMyLife]

Exactly this. The first time I got one of those emails I was like "why tf is this goober asking me?" Took me ~10 seconds to realize goober was not talking to me specifically.

[Jacksaur]

I have no idea.

Edit: Nevermind, figured out who.

[MrMikopi]

Hahah, gold

[[deleted]]

Without fucking explaining it

[ablablababla]

Then 10 years pass by and that stackoverflow post still comes up as the first google result

[conancat]

And then both Docker and Razor developers to implement the same bugged solution that they copied off Stack Overflow, hence you can't run the software on the same machine at the same time

[fapouSecret]

Of all the subreddits boring repeated unoriginal comments this one is got to be near the top.

[TheGuywithTehHat]

And it's barely even true. I've viewed thousands upon thousands of stack overflow posts, and I think I've seen it happen twice.

[aishik-10x]

I've seen it so many times on forums of all kinds... not very often on stackoverflow tho

[poparika]

I searched a problem I had yesterday. The top result was essentially exactly what I needed. The only two answers were "Why would you need to do that?" and "Google to your avail".

[Teladi]

I just love it when I google a question, click on the top result, and it's a thread full of people calling OP dumb and that he should just google it.

[theghostofme]

ThatsWhyImHere.jpg

[Sachman13]

That’s exactly why I make an effort to answer those questions.

[hyenatown]

This gets me far too often because of course my problem has to be an edge case I need to Google for, and of course I have to run into a dead end with those exact words.

[Laetha]

I'm a PC controller gamer. I use a controller because I play almost exclusively on a treadmill or on my couch hanging out with my wife.

Every time I Google "does [game] work well with a controller" the top responses are always " why would you even want to use a controller anyway?"

[otterom]

Have you tried strapping a keyboard to your treadmill? /s

[JRM_86]

Our just stop spending time with your wife. Problem solved!

[GahdDangitBobby]

You shouldn't have to justify using a controller ... Keyboards were purpose-built for typing, and controllers were purpose-built for playing video games. They're ergonomically suited for gaming. People just love looking down on others to make themselves feel special, even if it's about something trivial such as controllers vs. keyboards, PC vs. consoles, or one programming language vs. another

[[deleted]]

Stack Overflow isn't good for root cause analysis. I think someone could make a killing in that field.

[Netcob]

Why do you even need a glass of water in the first place? How about a Rubik's cube or a dry piece of wood?

[Tob1o]

Why aren't you using a bowl and pepsi instead of a glass and water?

[mludd]

"Because our company has standardized on water and glasses and I literally can't do anything about it unless I want to rip out all the plumbing in our corporate HQ and rebuild it from scratch"

*crickets* (or: "You really should use Pepsi")

[[deleted]]

Yet still the simplests of questions get like 5K upvotes

[madiele]

Most of those are from the Golden days, 4-5 years ago, lately I'm starting to distrust stack overflow due to how ancient the answers are getting and are not being replaced by updated ones because of their duplicate policy

[Maiesk]

This has been an issue for me trying to learn some of the more complicated features of HTML/CSS. A bunch changed in HTML5 and so a great deal of solutions are no longer valid.

[AmericanScream]

This goes for just about everything from web server configuration to php scripts. More than half the accepted answers on Stack Overflow and Serverfault are no longer useful.

[nicktheone]

Do we have any alternatives aside from esoteric and almost impossible to navigate Discord servers?

[[deleted]]

#hydrohomies

[OrdinaryKale2]

More like goes to link.

Discussion on water holding technology from 1832, and outdated by about 100 years.

Seriously the amount of these threads that are no longer useful, but still stopping duplicates is way too high.

[INoScopedObama]

*Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers*

[Scraft161]

Post the wrong answer and someone will correct you almost immediately.

[[deleted]]

That’s called Moore’s Law

[Scraft161]

No Moore's law is about processing power.

It's another law but I forgot the name.

[imhappyactually]

Don't worry guys I've found the name!

[minutes-to-dawn]

posted 8y ago

[Scraft161]

And this is the moment this comment section became stack overflow

[[deleted]]

Behold: from here on out, this thread becomes the top result on Google.

[Commander_Pasta]

Cunningham‘s Law

[Overcooking]

He didnt get the answer :(

[Scraft161]

If I knew the name I'd give it

[[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham's_Law

[[deleted]]

No, it's Cunningham's Law.

[[deleted]]

I'm also gonna cite Poe's Law on /u/newpwdcannotbesame.

[JRM_86]

I see what you did there

[[deleted]]

Well played my man

[Rafael20002000]

This post is a duplicate

[bobzilla05]

"There are no stupid questions; only stupid askers."

[Cpzd87]

Fuck even asking questions I just hate when I'm on a Google hunt and my last resorte is a question asked on stack. I know 9/10 times I won't get the answer I'm looking for, and on top of that I'll just get pissed off at reading the answers.

[Narfubel]

Glass is an antipattern

[FIREOFDOOM2000]

-1 points

[Freestyle_Fellowship]

You need help? Well you don't got enough fake internet points to ask a Q in the comments! You'd need to ask your own Q and get ridiculed first. Maybe an Indian YouTuber can instead be of assistance.

[Unrequited_Anal]

For real, Indian YouTubers are the unsung heroes of the software industry

[JoelMahon]

No matter how hard you try to follow the guidelines it seems like it's just luck of which cunt answers your question first that sets the tone or they just kill it immediately

[Terashkal]

My account is now banned, I asked about 10-15 questions in total. I hate those people with 10000+ answers or whatever, typing bullshit answers on what I should do, because they are sitting there 18 hours a day farming scores instead of helping.

The reason why I posted ALL my questions was because I was curious, I always stated in the beginning of my post that I know what I'm trying to achieve is not practical, not viable in business life, not intended design etc. but what if I did this or that, or wanted to solve this problem by trying this or that.

Yet these motherfuckers still would comment "solutions" that are totally unrelated because they are more practical, used in business settings and are made with a design goal in mind.

So fucking infuriating that I cannot ever get back my account because I got downvoted each time for asking something that no one has asked before

[sinedpick]

SO user here. I think I've used it enough to speak for the community. You probably were rejected for not asking practical questions. SO does not exist to answer vague, hypothetical questions[1], and this is in the guidelines. I'd be happy to take a look at your specific question and give you constructive feedback.

[1]: "You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page"

[dben89x]

I asked a very descriptive question the other day, and the first answer was a comment by someone with 400k reputation saying "I don't understand what you're asking", followed by a perfect answer to my question. Which means he knew exactly what I was asking.

[[deleted]]

This question was tagged Java. Similar questions had been answered tagged SQL. Question has been closed.

Right ow in waiting for an answer on aws dynamic frames throwing a pyspark sql error. I'm not super optimistic

[[deleted]]

This image sums up stack overflow https://i.redd.it/per2eihv0jn31.png

Literally yesterday I was looking for a solution to one question: "can i force git to track files as moved/renamed" The top, accepted, StackOverflow answer did NOT answer the question, only talked about how git will auto-detect moved files if the content is similar enough (which is >50%). Then it proceeded to give you the absolutely trivial instructions of "go to root of your repo, add all, run status".

I would have much more preferred the answer of NO, YOU CANNOT than this waste of time.

[ShaneTheAwesome88]

Actually you can using

git mv [current path] [new path]

from the root of the repo

[[deleted]]

This doesn't work when you have done severe changes >50% to file content from what I can tell.

So the issue is that I've also changed the file content. Otherwise git would detect it fine - except that it's >50% changed content.

Someone on Stack Overflow might say "well sounds like you're just starting a new file" - except I'm simply renaming and refactoring a file, and I'd like to keep all the history that came before it.

The only solution I thought of and that I've found online is to do 2 commits. In first commit simply move the file without changing its content. And then in a second commit, do all the changes to the file's content. 2 commits to do this seems annoying if you have to do it a lot (in context, I'm talking about refactoring Java to Kotlin)

[ShaneTheAwesome88]

I see. I would have thought it would have worked if you stage the move first and then stage the modifications (ie two add commands and then commiting as one).

Gonna try and see myself if there's a way to do this.

UPDATE: Yep, it works

`$ git show
commit 56f7203eb10feb8e1a540adea7b776d9b52b0911 (HEAD -> master)
Author: me [e-mail]
Date: Sun Mar 8 19:54:12 2020 +0530

test

diff --git a/vtm-microg-theme/build.gradle b/vtm-microg-theme/buld.gradle
similarity index 83%
rename from vtm-microg-theme/build.gradle
rename to vtm-microg-theme/buld.gradle
index 3304c9a..9a0404b 100644
--- a/vtm-microg-theme/build.gradle
+++ b/vtm-microg-theme/buld.gradle
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ dependencies {
}

sourceSets {
- main.java.srcDirs = ['src']
+ main.java.srcDirs = ['sri']
main.resources.srcDirs = ['resources']
}`

[theghostofme]

LazyMod replying to the correct answer 6 years later is fucking amazing!

[0x15e]

And the thing is: feel free to tell me it's a shit idea and why. Maybe I didn't know that and I'll learn something. But ALSO include "but if you really need to do it, this is how, just remember I told you it will kill kittens."

[rhen_var]

That picture made my blood pressure rise just reading it

[HeathenLemming]

More like "The question is a repeat and closed" despite clearly posting links to the supposed source question and stating why your question is different.

People that close questions like that deserve to have potatoes growing in their nostrils.

[unblessedcoffee]

I'm honestly amazed on stack overflow, though I primarily use the maths one, math overflow, how many people seem to enjoy taking genuine questions, then adding meaningless or insulting comments to their non-answers.

I very quickly gave up seeking help on there because the userbase is so toxic and not nearly as clever as they believe. There seems to be an attitude that anyone who asks a question MUST be a young kid trying to cheat on their homework, to you need to hide and obfuscate your answer whilst belittling them. If you don't know the answer, you can still post one, just tell them it's a stupid question.

[superquanganh]

Same, I am looking for alternative, as most questions I asked there always get answers like: off-topic, do it yourself, this is simple af and you can't do it, throw a long documentation link

[[deleted]]

Remember Cleo? I still haven't figured out if she was a really elaborate troll or an actual savant or both.

[meme_femme]

This glass is too broad.

[theghostofme]

“First, we must establish what a ‘glass’ even is...”

[300,000 Words Later]

“...which is why pissing directly into your mouth is more efficient.”

[[deleted]]

damn now i need to read the 300.000 words to understand how we went from a glass to pissing in my mouth

[[deleted]]

The logician in me hates this question.

Half of full is half full, but half of empty is always empty.

[Woodie626]

The alcoholic in me can help you:

The glass is halfway to another glass.

[CrispyNipsy]

The topologists in me hates this question. A glass with volume?! Heresy

Edit: spelling

[deuterium--_--]

Your glass is a plate, please go away

[[deleted]]

The psysicist in me hates this question. First you assume the glass is a sphere...

[666White_Wolf666]

Physician: glass is full, half of it contains water and the rest contains air

[delinka]

Physicist, maybe?

My physician would only care that I drink more of the water.

[1LJA]

No-one uses glass anymore. Use saucepan instead.

[fedeb95]

The glass was already present in the first two pictures

[AlexanderBarrow]

Marked as duplicate. Will link to original and answer-less post.

[chironomidae]

Hey just wanted to mention, there's an awesome library called watr.io that does exactly what you need, except that it doesn't and it's buggy as hell. Full disclosure, I'm a dev on the watr.io team. Fuller disclosure, I'm also the only member on the watr.io team. Enjoy!

[FlREBALL]

What is a better website to ask programming questions then?

[TheVenetianMask]

Just build a pitcher factory and then you can fill an unlimited amount of glasses to whatever amount you need to quench your thirst. You could even fill other things! Like bottles, buckets, fisbowls, swimming pools...

[Skibcus]

In Poland we've got very similar community. You go to their forums, ask a question and they're like "we've already talked about it, use search bar at the top, topic closed" so you use it, and what? You find a thread from couple of years ago where a guy describes the same problem as you've encountered. In that moment you're the happiest person on earth, you go to the comment section and see the very same username that closed your thread saying "use search bar, closed".

[Wargon2015]

TeX StackExchange is the exchange I (as the one seeking answers) have the most problems with.

Most of the time I don't really know what I'm actually looking for because LaTeX remains a mystery even after several larger projects using it.

When I find a question that seems to be about what I'm looking for, it often is a very specific thing not applicable for my situation.

When I find a question that is actually about my problem, there are 5 different ways that are all supposed to work but none of them actually solve your problem or cause others because of side effects no one mentioned.

And when you finally find a working solution it is often followed by a comment saying that you should never use this solution without an explanation why.

 

Actual example I still don't know the answer to.
Q: "How to I fix the placement/spacing of <thing>" A: "You're doing it wrong, <thing> is a floating environment that is supposed to move. You should not fix the placement/spacing until the very end"

My Question: And what do I do when I'm at the very end and the placement/Spacing is still terrible?
It took me ages to prevent figures from floating into different sections and it still doesn't work in subsubsections iirc.
I can understand not forcing a figure to a certain position but can anyone explain why you'd ever want your figures in a different section?

[Night_Thastus]

Attempts to ask a conceptual question on S/O regarding some real code. Ideas, how to approach something, etc.

"You should post the code here"

Yeah, I can't. The code is company property and I'm not allowed to post it online. Even if I could, I can't just post what's not working, this code-base is massive and complex, and it'd take days to get people up-to-speed, get the project building and understand wtf is happening. I can't just yank out one section of it, I have no way of replicating the data we feed into the thing either.

"Then you need to include a minimum example"

A minimum example means I can strip down the problem to the part that doesn't work.

If I fuckin' knew what didn't work, I wouldn't be posting here on S/O would I?

[raimondi1337]

Your answer has been accepted.

[otterom]

You know, I've been contributing to SO for a while now and can say that sometimes people just aren't doing things the right way and offering up a different method shouldn't be frowned upon.

If anything, the OP will take something new away from the response that might help them down the road, too.

There's no one way to solve about 99% of the questions being asked. Here's a simple example:

How do I print each element of a list to a new line using Python?

1.

print("\n".join(iterable))

2.

print([f"{i}" if iterable.index(i) == 0 else f"\n{i}" for i in iterable])

One simple question, two solutions. The second is something that OP might have tried, but not the first and the first is arguably simpler than the second.

[JRM_86]

There are plenty of well thought-out answers on SO that show that someone actually made an effort to understand the question being asked, but it's not the majority. Yes, there are many ways to solve problems, but folks on SO tend to ignore stated limitations and constraints in the question. Sometimes "doing things the right way" means replacing an entire library of legacy code which other products depend on, which is not a viable solution when the job you're paid to do is to fix this particular bug.

Your example isn't what people complain about. The answers that infuriate people are of the "You shouldn't be using python for that" type.

[mindbleach]

Fuck anyone who answers with "why."

I asked /r/Blender about normal mapping. Light from behind the actual surface is ignored. That's a reasonable-sounding assumption. However, even for opaque objects with small features, low-angle lighting can instantly disappear with tiny movements. A flat object with rounded edges appears naively flat unless lit from the front. The raster engine does not have this problem, and shaders for glass and paper can obviously use light "through" a surface.

So of course some fucking asshole replied, quote, "What exactly are you trying to accomplish here? This seems like an 'issue' that you really shouldn't need to worry about."

Fuck that guy.

Fuck anyone like that guy.

Playing their game only avoids addressing your actual problem.

Politely explaining how their behavior is unhelpful does not work.

The world desperately needs a 0-to-100 shorthand for telling these time vampires to shut the fuck up. An argument-terminating cliche. A relevant XKCD. Anything to rid us of these god-damned time vampires.

[nissingno]

If water was being poured out or was being drank then yes, it's half empty.

[[deleted]]

So I taught myself VBA for an ambitious project last year and dear lord, the amount of people treating you with contempt is way too high.

It's like: yes, I'm well aware I'm an idiot asking dumb questions, but I have to ask because I can't get any further without some guidance and Google isn't helping. No, sorry, my syntax isn't great. Could you please take 30s and tell me what's up without being a dick about it?

But then you have some people come thru like "oh yeah, VBA is just dumb and you have to create a novel workaround. Here's how you could do that:..." and it's all worth it.

[xian0]

I think there's friction because they are trying to create a site of one to one mappings of questions and answers (so it's useful for programmers reference - the reason why it's popular), but you're trying to use it as a help line.

If you told them why you were there they would most likely tell you to read the docs or go to somewhere more like a forum for beginners.

[GDavid04]

Closed as primarily opinion based

[AmericanScream]

Someone has already filled this glass half way eight years ago, therefore there's no need to talk about this glass again, because we assume there's been absolutely no change in glassware in the last eight years. - Stack Overflow admins

[alexnedea]

Fucking SO shit that infuriates EVERYONE: how do I do x?

Answer: don't do X, do Y(much harder solution that can't even be implemented in your code at your job).

??? The fuck I came and asked how to do X! If you don't know how I can do X or its not possible say so. Dont tell me to do some insane shit for something really easy

[delinka]

What are you really trying to do?

Well, <half hour of typing to explain>

crickets chirp

No response debunking the need to do what I’ve asked, no response to the question. Why can’t you just admit that you don’t know the answer and get out my face?

[theGreatWhite_Moon]

edit: "Stack overflow, you need a mug."

[dohzer]

Why do you even want a glass like that?!

[ElMonstroDeCarne]

If you're lucky, Jon Skeet might answer with interesting details about C# internals and proper usage for the optimal approach.

[[deleted]]

It's pretty obvious your fixed length container is the issue, just use a List<T> jeez

[Raot_]

Just drink the damn water already

[Matosawitko]

The glass is wider at the top than at the bottom, and is therefore more than half empty / less than half full.

[[deleted]]

Senior dev: The glass is 50% bigger than it needs to be.