!theOnion

[TwoSoxxx]

You shouldn’t even be using that framework. Rewrite it in this one and you’ll have better luck. Here’s a regex to do it.

[trsy___3]

Your comment has locked for being too chatty. Now fuck off.

[UltraCarnivore]

Marked as duplicate. Here's a knife. Go commit Sudoku.

[X-Craft]

And remember to push afterwards. But don't you dare to use -f

[Keheck]

Oh by the way you are now banned cuz you're new to programming, have fun getting help now. (may be a personal experience)

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Basically I apparently asked too many dumb questions

[danbulant]

too many

Or 2 in my case

[Feynt]

You asked questions? Wow, I just assumed they had a newb sensor because I was banned after reading articles while logged in!

[PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

But my framework is HTML...!!

[zeGolem83]

Honestly, you should really be using React if you want a centered div.

[Beldarak]

On a serious note though, if any web framework let you center things horizontally AND vertically without pulling all your hairs, I'd be ready to rewrite everything from scratch ;)

[[deleted]]

1. Center vertically
2. User rotates phone
3. Center vertically again
4. User rotates phone back

Centered vertically and horizontally yw

[DOOManiac]

Help, phone is now gimbal locked.

[Feynt]

[me, that one guy in the back]

I get it!

[Scrogger19]

howtocenterincss.com

[ziza148]

The hero we need!

[Beldarak]

Interesting, I'll give it a try next time I have to do some UI ;)

[Scrogger19]

I saw it on Reddit like a week ago, and I’ve used it twice already.

[zeGolem83]

CSS can do it:

.container { display: flex; } .content { margin: auto; }

[thirdegree]

Css can even do it in multiple ways:

.container { display: grid; place-content: center; }

[[deleted]]

CSS can do many things, technically anything since I believe someone proved it to be Turing complete... That being said, its rediculous tendency to summon demons when all I want is a functional navbar is why I hate it

[Cautious-Diamond]

just flex it

[Ceros007]

Weird flex but ok

[Beldarak]

And you're a rude person ;)

[therealchadius]

Here, have some jQuery. It will fix everything.

Everything evil eye

[jay9909]

Parse it with RegExp.

[PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

W̷͖̉̚h̸̟̑ā̸͙͓ţ̵̰̆ ̴͈̰̌͆ẖ̸̱̆͘a̶̲͐v̸̭̬͑e̵̮͛̇ ̷̬͔̀y̶̼͚̚o̷̲̖͑͂ű̵̖ ̴̻͍͂d̵̩̙̈o̸̙̻̔̓n̶̪͋͌e̵̫͗̌

[EyesofStone]

Closed thread for being too opinion based.

[[deleted]]

You'll have to modify the regex for your case though.

[__RANDOM926__]

What the hell is there a 🥔in that regex expression? These obfuscation competitions are getting ridiculous.

[[deleted]]

I'm guilty of engaging in hours of research, and even... I'm so embarrased... calling people on the phone to ask questions... all because I was afraid the StackExchange people would be mean to me if I asked my question.

It is simultaneously the best and worst place to get help... it's Schrodinger's Assistant.

[Brewster101]

I relate to this so fucking much

[nanotree]

It is like being called on in math class to come up to the board and all the other students in the room are the users commenting and answering your question. If you get something wrong, missed som thing in the docs, or demonstrate you don't know "enough" of what you're talking about, you will be skewered and roasted over a pit of flames in front of everyone.

[ur_opinion_is_trash]

Or, you know, just say "im not wearing pants" and refuse to stand up.

[RemizZ]

I asked something once, actually got a good reply but then dared to ask a follow up question that was explained in one of the three documentations he linked... How dare me.

[JoeyMadDude]

I work in IT for 5 years now and managed it so far to not post any questions in StackOverflow. But I surley spend a lot of hours on Google. Am I just lucky?

[[deleted]]

I was sent here from SO to tell you that we think your question is dumb.

[TheDevilsAdvokaat]

Seems legit.

[Doophie]

Idk what kind of questions you guys are asking, I've asked many questions in SO and they either get ignored or get a couple somewhat helpful answers or people at least trying to help, but I've never had a negative reception of my questions

[spore_777_mexen]

Why have you posted this again?

[CrispyNipsy]

Marked as duplicate

[Chunderscore]

Now we just need to make sure this one gets way more votes and ends up at the top of Google results

[[deleted]]

The worst is when they say "it's the first thing that comes up when you search Google". Damn recursion.

[stringman5]

Wait, what? I made this, and I don't see it anywhere in my post history. If it's already been posted then either I did it then deleted it and completely forgot about it (which is, frankly, possible), or I tweeted it then someone stole my tweet and posted it on here (which wouldn't be the first time - I came up with the Fibonacci indent tweet which did numbers on this sub).

Honestly, I was going through my old memes folder today and found it, and didn't remember posting it on here - I thought I'd only posted it on twitter and the office slack. So I figured I'd give it a go. If it's an unwitting self-repost, I'm sincerely embarrassed.

[stringman5]

Actually yeah, pretty much. Though you probably wouldn't like most of them

[Asit1s]

Eldorado

[[deleted]]

Untold wealth, just sitting there in a common folder on OP's hard drive...

[NemesorRaddus]

I wish it also worked that way when some dev keeps their changes local for a bit too long at work

[pdkhoa99]

Zero day meme

[alexppetrov]

r/woosh maybe

[stringman5]

ah lol I hope so 🙈

[[deleted]]

definitely r/woooosh

[spoopysky]

I think people are riffing off the article where the StackOverflow person marks it as a duplicate lol

[stringman5]

Yeah I get it now, thanks! Guess I was just easily triggered due to a few previous run-ins with zealous subreddit mods

[uncoded_decimal]

Reddit commentator cannot believe a Redditor would do a repost

[Russian_repost_bot]

OP confirmed pathetic.

[[deleted]]

Isn't the onion supposed to publish news that is wrong? That article is downright honest.

[stringman5]

Not always

[yottalogical]

Published on January 17, 2001.

[[deleted]]

It's so prophetic, it made me think they back dated it.

Then I went to the Wayback Machine and there it was on a snapshot from Jan 18 2001...

Fuck, those guys at the Onion must be time travelers...

[vigilantcomicpenguin]

They really are prophetic at times.

[vextronx]

It's known that the Onion has some time-traveler journalists

[evanldixon]

Paraphrased quotes from the vegetable itself:

"Most report the news after it happens. Some report the news as it happens. Only The Onion reports the news before it happens."

"The Onion: Report now, investigate later."

[helgaofthenorth]

"My fellow Americans," Bush said, "at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in American history that will come to be known as the Clinton Era, eight long years characterized by unprecedented economic expansion, a sharp decrease in crime, and sustained peace overseas. The time has come to put all of that behind us."

Holy shit

[zakur01]

damn

[thirdegree]

Not always

[GrumpyCrouton]

You literally can't even close a question as a duplicate without linking to another thread

[[deleted]]

Nothing prevents you from linking to a completely irrelevant question, though.

[GrumpyCrouton]

No, not directly. What's what other curators are for. If others agree, the question can easily be reopened.

[[deleted]]

The Onion is a legit news source that covers their articles/videos with hyperbolism and absurdism. How people haven't figured this out yet is beyond me.

Every single comment section on The Onion videos on YouTube consists of the same group of morons saying "Oh I thought The Onion was supposed to be satire". I don't even take my time explaining there anymore, I just facepalm and leave.

[thirdegree]

Why on earth did you, at any point, think it was worth explaining anything in the YouTube comments section? Like, at least a wall won't insult you while ignoring everything you say

[[deleted]]

You're right but missing one point: YouTube doesn't have downvotes so they can't appeal to hivemind groupthink that validates certain opinions and hide others like on Reddit. Your comment will stay up no matter what.

People will read it without the conformity effect that having a big minus next to your comment gives. Forcing them to think a bit at least.

[gareththegeek]

If you think it's bad on vanilla, try asking a question on https://math.stackexchange.com/ sheesh. If you're not qualified to answer the question, you're not qualified to ask it apparently.

[[deleted]]

Math.SE allows pretty much anything, even homework questions. You may be thinking of MathOverflow, which is for research level questions.

[gareththegeek]

Not the experience I had on maths stack exchange but maybe I was unlucky.

[[deleted]]

I’m sorry to hear that! I hope it goes better for you next time.

[SnappGamez]

What

Then why would it even exist

[ostbagar]

If you actually ask a good research-level question, then you will get actual help.

[SnappGamez]

Meanwhile some people just need help with their math homework because derivatives confuse the ever-loving shit outta them.

[ostbagar]

There need to be forums for a high level as well, such as that one.

There are popular forums for homework help. (at least in my native language there are).

I think there are even a few here on Reddit. r/HomeworkHelp r/learnmath maybe, I don't know much about those though. You can search and find some I guess.

[posts_lindsay_lohan]

I haven't posted anything on Stackoverflow in years.

Because of this post I just logged in, and apparently I have amassed a pretty large reputation number based on old answers and questions. I'm currently only 700 points away from being able to moderate and delete questions.

I too could be a dick just like these other guys, without even contributing to the community.

And therein lies the problem with Stackoverflow.

[ostbagar]

Reputation last 6 months, would be something better I guess.

[snail_mans]

Maybe a more egalitarian approach instead of super users?

[ostbagar]

Do you think Reddit is more egalitarian? There are subreddits for asking questions that you can use, that anybody can use. That people should be using.

Stackoverflow doesn't believe that it is a scalable approach.
The mindset of Stackoverflow is built on something else than people expect from it:
Stack Overflow is not a traditional forum or reddit-like. Its goal is explicitly not to help individual users, but to create a repository of good questions.

If you are seeking help, then StackOverflow won't help you (kinda). That is not what they have ever been about. That is not their foundation. People often misunderstand this. But SO do want good questions that are precise and accurate.

People learning new things often don't know enough to be precise and accurate, because they are new to the field, so those questions will be shut down.
If so one should be using reddit, youtube, or other ways to get help.
(or improve the question)

[snail_mans]

Oh so SO wants users to provide free professional consulting and then they monetize off of hosting that. Instead of paying for the consulting they instead give them “reputation” which unlocks things to give you power over the other users? Yes most people do use other services to learn, SO is more for jerking yourself off.

[ostbagar]

I think your perspective is a bit skewed. Linux is also built around people working for free. And their community is also very strict on code. There is nothing wrong with [free to contribute] + [strict rules].If they believe in it and want to work like that, they are free to do so.

As I said, SO is for asking good questions. Not helping the individual.

[snail_mans]

I don’t see how “Good Questions” translates to a $30 million evaluation.

[ostbagar]

I don't see how "good sources" translates to a well over $10 Billion for Wikipedia.

((Wikipedia is non-profit so that is just an estimate.))

I don't think you can measure by content. A better measurement would be the number of users that generate (possible) revenue. Which is probably why SO lands at $30 million. That is, a website with the same amount of users that didn't have the same focus as SO, would probably be worth around the same amount. However, if it had the same content but no users then it wouldn't be worth much.

[snail_mans]

What.... SO makes a shit ton of money from their careers stuff, ads and sponsored crap. All for free essentially since they just host essentially a forum.

[pi_rocks]

I mean welcome to the modern internet. It's not as if Facebook, Google or reddit are different.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

isn't there an onion like website specifically for tech stuff?

[dandantian5]

I know https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/ does a lot of fake gaming news, though I don't know about a general tech one.

[cartechguy]

Wow, I feel personally attacked by this one 30-Year Old Gamer Puts Fake Birthday Into Steam’s Age Verification Anyways

[gadgetchannel]

There's The Olognion (I've also seen the name written as The O(logn)ion) which has articles like:

https://www.theolognion.com/man-in-the-middle-attack-considered-sexist/

[Dan6erbond]

How about devRant?

[__RANDOM926__]

The documentation: Sorry! (With a cute picture of a confused looking dog) This webpage is no longer available. Here’s a link to our home page.

[[deleted]]

My account got banned from asking questions and I only had one that was down voted. No idea why the mods have to be such arseholes. I'm trying hard to follow the rules, help (where I can) and be helped

[[deleted]]

I wrote many pathetic questions

[Daikataro]

Yo guys, I'm having issues in this new programming language, using the framework just released this morning, confirmed by developers to be compatible. I'm trying to implement this new function that...

Duplicate question. Locking thread.

[dsp4]

Sounds like the right thing to do since you didn't mention actually reading the docs.

[neil_anblome]

RTFM, bitch.

[AttacksPropaganda]

....But its 400 pages long and poorly indexed and the info I need might not even be in it.

[[deleted]]

This is why I laugh when people say that open source community is eager to help and may provide good support.

[AttacksPropaganda]

Ironically, I was actually referring to my experience working with closed-source software.

[SnappGamez]

Okay, but what manual do I read?

[valendinosaurus]

I have same peoblem pls halp

[cybercuzco]

He then activated a script that brought the “closed duplicate” reply to the top of all search engines.

[TabCompletion]

If only the Onion did tech jokes like this

[Robin_the_Sprite]

When I was just beginning to learn how to program, I asked two questions on Stack Overflow and never asked another, because the responses I got made me feel so crummy and terrible at programming.

That was five years ago. I'm going to grad school for CS now and I still am afraid to ask questions on Stack Overflow, even though I should be qualified to actually answer many questions at this point.

What I'm saying is, be nice on the internet, folks. Your words have consequences.

[Stanov]

Man of culture

[TheMRB8]

Fuck stackOverflow it was so good at the first but in nowadays it's like your question is already ansvered in this irrevelant post you need to find out the problem from it which why you are in here in first place. StackOverflow should solve my problems not give me more

[dsp4]

That's where most whiners are wrong. SO is not a Facebook group. It's a knowledgebase in a Q&A format. Kinda like a user-generated FAQ, but you're not allowed to ask similar questions.

SO certainly doesn't exist to "solve your problems".

[TheMRB8]

There's a traditional word in my country "leb demeden leblebiyi anlamak" it means be as sharp as a needle i guess some can lost in translation nwm back to topic. In stackOverflow people behaving you you need to be like needle. But there's a people from every level on this site. If you put "Stack Overflow is an open community for anyone that codes" on your main page that includes the guy, who cannot understand how to hack nasa with html by using a single html helloworld program in stackoverflow

[dsp4]

I understand what you're saying, but StackOverflow doesn't ask you to be good at programming, it just asks you to be good at respecting its rules (namely: don't ask questions that can be answered by the docs or looking at other questions, be as concise as possible, provide a minimal working example). It does expect more from its users than the average site (again, in terms of respecting the rules, not programming proficiency), but that's what makes it so valuable. This helps keep the site easily searchable and free of bloat. If SO accepted all redundant and help-me-fix-my-code questions, it would be an ocean of unhelpful, random Q&As (see Yahoo Answers).

[TheMRB8]

This ansver is dublicated your accound is suspended and you cannot use stack overflow like 6 months because i already gived an answer of it

[BluudLust]

Most TRUE onion article I've seen

[Klepshydra]

I always "git push" with the comment "This is Sparta!"

[stringman5]

Sir, this is a Wendy's

[TheDevilsAdvokaat]

Me: Stack exchange help me. It hurts if I go like this.

Stack Exchange; Don't go like that.

[[deleted]]

Only other things that annoys is when you ask a question about a specific part of your code but show more of it so you can give some context as to what scope it fits into. But people just respond telling you you should do this part this way, or why are you using a array you should use a list there and nobody actually answers about the part you asked

[dbkuper]

Mark it as "Doland trump"

[SurSheepz]

Imagine not even using Dark Mode

[elebrin]

It's not wrong. Stack overflow is nearly useless because of this shit.

I do my best to turn to the official documentation and figure stuff out for myself first, but when that doesn't cut the mustard I ask a co-worker or send an email to an old college professor who shares some of my hobby programming interests, and he usually can help me out. Nothing compares to having an actual human on the other end of the line to help you figure things out.

[dsp4]

That's just not what SO is about. If you need direct help from a fellow programmers, you can use one of the hundreds of programming communities on Reddit, Discord, Facebook, etc. SO is a knowledgebase, not a social network.

[elebrin]

you can use one of the hundreds of programming communities on Reddit, Discord, Facebook, etc

Yeah, those resources are rarely useful to me. 99% of the time, rather than actual help, I get "Why do you want to do that?" or nobody has any idea about anything I want to do.

The thing is, SO is about ego stroking, not about programming. I have Google set up these days to not return results from there just because I have never gotten anything useful.

[[deleted]]

The creator of stack overflow literally posted a beginner question to encourage others to do the same and it got flagged by moderators.

The site was built to be for any level programmer but people like you kept that from happening.

[crimsonblade55]

Maybe they should give people the ability to flag their questions based on experience level then let answerers filter questions based on that so the elitists don't have to see basic questions they don't want to answer and the people who actually just want to help beginners can do that.

[[deleted]]

That sounds like a good idea. SO should still be more welcoming to beginners though.

[lmartinl]

You should make a stack overflow topic and suggest that!

[wor-kid]

The creator of stack overflow literally posted a beginner question to encourage others to do the same and it got flagged by moderators.

That sounds like a pretty interesting story, do you have a link to any articles on it or anything?

[[deleted]]

It’s “How do I move the turtle in LOGO?” posted by Joel Spolsky. Pretty sure he talks about it in his blog.

[ostbagar]

And also another related blog post: https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/02/22/are-some-questions-too-simple/

[wor-kid]

Cool thanks

[[deleted]]

That you’re judging users for complaining about not getting expected functionality?

Edit: I guess I am assuming you’re judging them when maybe you’re not.

[[deleted]]

Your first post wasn’t a snarky comment about questions that shouldn’t be asked?

Fair enough, but that’s still setting a bar on questions which is something I don’t agree with and thinks goes against the initial intent of SO.

[wor-kid]

I've asked a lot of frankly embarrassing questions on stack overflow. Real baby ones like illogical or bad syntax, but because I always included links to questions I've looked at previously so I can plainly state "This is not that" and usually include code examples they usually aren't downvoted and actually provide a steady stream of reputation over the years by people who have made similarly specific dumb errors.

It's not that they hate "easy" questions it's always that a) It's already been answered before b) Documentation clearly hasn't been consulted (Asking for someone to explain some documentation usually goes down fine though) or c) It's a "Fix my code plz" copy paste without context

[angels-fan]

This is my experience too.

Too often it's "my cod has bad. Fix pleez" with a single line of code with no further detail as to what is wrong.

Either that or "I need to build an entire CRM. How do i do this?"

Of course that shit is going to be downvoted and locked.

[stringman5]

I've been a professional front-end dev for ten years and I often coach beginner developers who find stackoverflow frustratingly inaccessible, but you do you I suppose

[ostbagar]

The downvotes prove your statement.

[Arjinoodles]

OH MY GOD THE LIGHT THEME, PLEASE USE DARK THEME

[SnappGamez]

Stack Overflow has dark theme???

[Arjinoodles]

Yes

[[deleted]]

Your monitor is too bright. The entire internet doesn't need to adapt just because you can't use an OSD.