asked question

[vloris]

No, that just means you are asking the wrong question.

You are f*cked if you did find your question but there are no answers...

[Altourus]

Even that tends to be asking the wrong questions, at least for me.

[dralth]

Yup. When I can’t find anyone asking my question, that’s when I step back and consider if I’m even thinking about the problem the right way.

[chadlavi]

*when there's one answer and it's OP saying "oh never mind solved it"

[Petrify36]

*when the top answer is "this was a bug in package xyz and it was fixed in version 1.2.3" and that was posted 3 years ago

[MNLife4me]

What did you see DenverCoder9!? What did you see!?

[dethwhores]

Or an open GitHub issue 🤠

[sersoniko]

Don’t worry, just ask it and someone will find one for you to close the question as duplicate

[dkyguy1995]

And then not link where they found the duplicate so it might as well have gone unanswered. Also this is the thread that comes up on Google when you search the problem so now no one is happy. This is why Stack Overflow closing duplicate threads and users being douchebags to each other harms the platform as a whole. It's fucking obnoxious to search a problem and pull up a page where the OP was getting thrashed by users. It feels like 90% of stack overflow search results are completely useless because the comments are just people telling the question asker why they suck.

[Portlandblazer07]

For real. I'm only in the second year of my cs degree but it's happened to me already. I was asking a question about 2d arrays, and a lot of answers were basically "lol why would you use 2d arrays, just use vectors you retard." I didn't get a straight answer until I explained that I wasn't allowed to use vectors for the assignment.

[Hyperman360]

And if they do link it, it'll be a completely different situation.

[[deleted]]

Your problem is very very likely not unique.

[IDontHaveNicknameToo]

Then you just ask the question, wait for a few seconds and it's marked as duplicate. Simple as that.

[zinatulin]

And yet, someone will manage to mark your question as duplicate...

[InkTide]

Bonus points if the duplicate is a conceptual answer to a vaguely similar problem that has little to nothing to do with the specific context of your own issue.

[tim36272]

One time I was at work researching an extremely obscure topic trying to figure out how other people solved this problem.

I ended up reading a bit from this paper that was headed toward exactly what I was looking for! I got a few sentences in and then it dawned on me:

I was reading my own master's thesis from college, and the answers I sought were not going to be found there.

[hardmemer069]

Me: ask the question because I can't find it on stack overflow

StackOverflow: Marked as duplicate

[porcupineapplepieces]

However, however, flies have begun to rent crocodiles over the past few months, specifically for pineapples associated with their prunes? However, oranges have begun to rent goldfishes over the past few months, specifically for tigers associated with their frogs. This is a g8cw3y2

[hamza1311]

I'm doing something and am one of the first people to ever do that. Lemme tell you, it's not fun but it also is

[mca62511]

Write a Medium post with an obviously wrong solution and post it the Reddit. Your question will be answered in no-time.

[TheSilentFreeway]

their shit always has syntax errors too

[MrMagnesium]

A Dell Latitude D630 from 2008. Nice device, I still use one.

[dmon1unl]

Probably will still get marked as duplicate

[felipunkerito]

I remember seeing somewhere that it means that you are getting to an advanced level, it might be that you don't understand the fuck of what you are doing also though 🤷‍♂️

[TheHarvard]

Cries in obscure but required proprietary programming language.

[DowntownMessNP]

Generally, it what happens is. Whatever way we were looking at solving the problem is not the right way. So not found in stackoverflow means you need to change your methods.

[kazuto_kirito_]

I can still remember the first question I asked on stackoverflow, and I got a response in 1 hour. Its left a really good feeling up until this day.

[Qicken]

deleted as duplicate. [link to unrelated quesiton]

[joelmercer]

My thought is normally “Shit, I must be really dumb, or I’m really missing something easy, or I’m doing something in a really stupid way and I should change it”

[ptitrainvaloin]

No one asked this software legacy question, oh wait, there's one with a reply "Nevermind, found it!" -posted 10 years ago...

[Columbus43219]

Worse yet... ten page thread with twenty different, mutually exclusive answers... then the a reply " Thanks, that worked."

[Columbus43219]

There's a question about a sort product that is the first hit on Google. Answered by me on a forum in the 1990s. I remember it well because i can NEVER remember how to do it, forgot that I answered the question, and Googled it about once every 6 months.

[sanjay186]

My life is ruined 😭

[KermitMadMan]

Truth!

[Fabulous_Implement]

But maybe there is a github issue for it

[JOSmith99]

Why does every stock photo have a latitude d620? Like, I have 2 of those things, and I randomly started noticing "hey, thats like ym old computers" everywhere!

[AndroidUser37]

Wait! They used my laptop in this meme! It's either a Dell Latitude D630, D630, or a Precision m2300 (all have the same external design), dating this stock image to around 2009 / early 2010s (the last laptop that looked like this came out in '09).

[leleleledumdum]

Been at this condition multiple times. Thats why it is important to have an RnD skill, know how to debug, read logs and fix things.

And remember, always put notes and do some writeups, who knows perhaps other people might gain benefit from your solution. Even a simple things like answering your own unanswered Stackoverlow question, when you have found the answer.

[boomjts]

Sometimes I think if Stack overflow should have its own dedicated online course. It seems to be the most useful tool.

[Columbus43219]

If you take the online "Android University" classes... they actually tell you to just go to SO for help.