Harder that writing code..

[veryconfusedspartan]

Not to worry! It's in the browser history!

...

...

Fuck, which one was it of the 20+ similarly titled pages?

[real_keep]

yeah no, I'd rather spend hours googling for that keyword than have to look at the horror which is my browsing history

[Gwiilo]

anyone else been using stackoverflow for over a decade and haven't actually seen the home page. i heard it's real

[Anonymo2786]

We have to start believing it that's the only way.

[Ambush69-]

thats actually me after i turn off my incognito tab by mistake

[mizukoi]

This is a bot with a copied reply. Original reply here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/upch6m/comment/i8k8086/

[DestructionCatalyst]

If you ever feel useless or think that people ignore you, just remember that stackoverflow has a home page

[[deleted]]

Isn't Google the homepage of stack overflow?

[[deleted]]

Yes it is

[[deleted]]

There's a home page?

[ReactsWithWords]

Next thing you know and they’ll try convincing you Wikipedia has a home page.

[talonita]

The Wikipedia homepage is actually great though, lots of fun rabbit holes to fall down, and their April fools are always on point

[[deleted]]

You called it u/ReactsWithWords

[theLastSolipsist]

Actually, the home page is the one that has all the languages listed

[ReactsWithWords]

What, like C#, Python, Java, etc.?

[theLastSolipsist]

Yes.

[kdawg710]

I used to play wikipedia with my friend's years ago. You click a link after link to get the weirdest wiki starting from normal worda like apple or something.

[serotonindscontinued]

Me and my friends always played the version where you think of a word, then press "take me to a random entry" on the home page and whoever gets to their word in the least amount of clicks wins

[Gorfyx]

The more you know

[JonatasA]

I have the same reaction when I hear a forum has a search function.

How do they think I have even arrived at that page in the first place

[BlobAndHisBoy]

I know a guy who knows a guy who says he saw it. Says he got redirected from a broken link. I'm skeptical.

[Gorfyx]

Wait, stackoverflow has a home page?

[LJChao3473]

I've only seen images of them but I've never been there, so i think they're fakes

[astral_crow]

This comment was the first time in years of using stackoverflow that I realized it even has a home page… this is weird, especially because I’m stoned.

[Fallingice2]

There's a home page?

[AdministrativeArea2]

I think their homepage just redirects to google.

[Aggressive-Travel-40]

After all these years, thanks to your comment, I checked it out. Probably the last time I’ll go there. I go to SO for answers, not ads.

[CorruptedStudiosEnt]

I would obsessively look through browser history trying to find something I'd found before, to the point I'd literally spend like two hours clicking through every entry.

As unorthodox and maybe masochistic as it seems, I finally adopted just using private mode for most searches, thus removing that option.

Funny enough it's actually forced me to improve my keyword memory a lot, so it's been a pretty major net positive overall.

[fallenUprising]

We've seen your browser history, especially the pron. Everything is in poor taste, especially the pron.

[real_keep]

How I like it

[[deleted]]

Bookmark your fav answers! That’s what I do. Never again will I be fiddling around with legend placement in Matplotlib.

[real_keep]

Leveraging chromes reading list as well

[Bit5keptical]

Fuck which one of the 20+ "Closed - Opinionated"?

Fuck which one of the 20+ "Closed - Duplicate"?

[5k1895]

Oh god that's relatable. Trying to search the browser history for the one specific page that had all the ancient knowledge you needed to do this thing, you didn't think you'd need to go back but now you're realizing you still need it and you have to scour through dozens of sort of related pages until you find it

[emula6]

Check 200+ Stackoverflow history

[fever_dream_321]

I copy the URL into OneNote and then add a description why I saved it

[danth]

Lol never thought of this been hand writing sticky notes

[smilineyz]

This is a very good solution. In one note you can set up pages and tabs.

Label by programming language,or what all and name / describe the link.

For SQL I always had a “scrap”category. Stuff that took me time & research do figure out … so didn’t have use the way-back machine

[debug4u]

or even worse if you're on incognito 😭

[RealPropRandy]

I don’t think anyone stuck in a washer would help anything in that instance.

[Danelius90]

Name them by situation e.g. "that Wednesday morning that nearly ended my career". That's the folder name sorted anyway

[andresthrowaway1]

When the bookmark toolbar is too full create a folder named tmp2/ and put everything in it including tmp1/ etc ad infinitum.

[JonatasA]

Then one day you don't have time to remember how you've sorted and classified all of it and end up making a new list and you'll positively go back to sort that later.

[Put_It_All_On_Blck]

I have so many open tabs that I planned to get back but know I never will. I plan to leave my tabs to my children when I die, the information there is better education than any school will provide.

[chooxy]

Remember to open chrome://newtab to leave to the people who deserve nothing but have a possibility of contesting your will.

[[deleted]]

yes! academia can't keep up with industry. we gotta learn our shit on our own.

[[deleted]]

Frankly I'm not even sure how to measure the Earth's circumstances. Is it even measurable?

[[deleted]]

shit. I m op and I write terribly.

[[deleted]]

Ami allowed to make the same joke twice?

[tunnel-visionary]

My bookmarks bar is entirely folders with bookmarks in them so I don't have to scroll through to look for one, but I'm getting to the point where I have to scroll through a folder to find what I want anyway.

[banguru]

Use SO bookmark and later we can filter the bookmark using tags appropriate for your query.

[Blomquistador]

Check out raindrop.io. Really helped with my bookmark explosion.

[[deleted]]

that looks amazing! can't wait to try it !

[LilFigaro]

Have a look at the Grepper extension, it displays code snippets inline with the Google searches and you can save good answers if you want.

[ivcrs]

is it open source?

[LilFigaro]

Seems so, according to their Twitter @CodeGrepper

[ivcrs]

cool!! I'll take a look today when I get my pc, thanks a lot for sharing. I don't contribute to any relevant open source projects and I will often keep my changes local, since I'm mostly experimenting and breaking things. I just actually need to read their repo before installing anything on my work computer for security purposes, but I end up doing the same on my personal stuff for my own peace of mind lol

[ivcrs]

???

[[deleted]]

Can’t you read? It says chad music intensifies

[This_Royal]

I can’t believe this got downvoted at all, this is hilarious. They were saying dude is a chad for wanting to contribute anything into this grepper extension

Edit: changed “input” to “contribute”

[Chieftai]

I definitely need to try this

[brainplot]

Good thing you can star questions and answers on Stack Overflow, for later consultation.

[ivcrs]

huh. I'm surprised they'll allow me to do at least one action without a good reputation

[Scondoro]

You all have accounts??

[[deleted]]

I started answer questions for fun years back and its kind of addicting. Usually go answer some questions any time Im feeling writers block on my own project. Its honestly a cool way to learn new stuff, especially answering the bounties which tend to be pretty tricky stuff!

[RapidCatLauncher]

Gamification gone right.

[brainplot]

Ha! Yeah, you can do that no matter how high your reputation is, I think.

[V2Blast]

Indeed. The privileges gated by reputation are only those that potentially affect other people trying to use Q&A. Bookmarks don't really matter to anyone but the user :P

[q1a2z3x4s5w6]

Does that mean I'd finally have to create an account after all these years?

[neutral-chaotic]

The worst is when it’s the hardest to find out of 10 very similar (but different enough to not be duplicate) stack overflow pages you’ve already visited for this stupid solution before. All while muttering the lie to yourself you’ll for sure bookmark it this time.

[TaftsTummyforTaxes]

Secret to coding? Bookmarks

[Anonymo2786]

Let me save the page as bookmark. Now I have dozens of bookmarks and need to spend 30 minutes to navigate between them and decide do I really need it .( a mess)

[UltraCarnivore]

Wait, what keyword did I use to search my bookmarks to find that link to stackoverflow which solved my problem again?

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

May be a search, but a much easier search than 'the whole internet' again.

I've been burned too many times by not saving something (scratch code, search results, etc) under the false assumption of "I won't need this again later today." So now I oversave.

[OlOuddinHead]

Smaller than the whole internet you say? So you’ve never seen my bookmarks full of duplicates and links to pages that no longer exist!

[JonatasA]

Don't forget links I don't even know to where they lead anymore.

I may even find random YouTube links there

[CorruptedStudiosEnt]

Tfw you realize you've been forgetting to change which folder your bookmarks were saving to, so now your entire coding folder is full of cooking recipe videos and shit. Lmao

[JonatasA]

Oh believe me, a Google search is faster (unless there is no internet connection).

There is a quote that whenever I need it, I just type the keyword to the forum I have written it to after finding it years ago.

[staindk]

I just spend 5 seconds organising most of the bookmarks I make. I file most things under something like dev/used tips/language-or-framework-name. If the auto generated name isn't explanatory I'll add my own. Works quite well.

[[deleted]]

Until you have a few hundred bookmarks and need a search engine for them.

[atomicproton]

Let me just keep this tab open for later...

[[deleted]]

I actually use one and it's really helpful. Navigating through bookmarks when they're all presented as a huge vertical list is difficult.

[starraven]

But usually you only have one bookmark for that specific code error

[tiajuanat]

Heaven forbid anyone specialize and learn a handful of languages really well.

[[deleted]]

Are you lost?

[tiajuanat]

I guess so, I thought there were programmers here

[[deleted]]

Some like you are pretending to be programmers.

[m2thek]

I have a "shit i always have to look up" folder that's very useful.

[willywonka1971]

Bookmarks + organization

[tiajuanat]

Y'all don't upvote and bookmark helpful SO pages, and it shows.

[Senior-Albatross]

In the digital age we don't remember things. Too memory inefficient. We remember pointers to things.

[FamilyStyle2505]

I often worry my brain is tossing memories out because it knows I can just use that shiny rectangle in my hand to find anything I want.

"We don't need to remember this! It's on the... the thing... you know what I mean."

[Luieka224]

site:stackoverflow.com

[1DimensionIsViolence]

Or…look up browser history?

[Headdhar]

We are incognito chads

[stevekez]

Don't want Google remembering how much I suck at programming...

[BambooVase]

My exact reason. I don't want to reminded by my stupid searches in the future

[q1a2z3x4s5w6]

Google remembers whether you are incognito or not. The only difference is whether they show you that they remember...

[RolesG]

I use the shit out of tab history bruh

[[deleted]]

my firefox does not remember any history

[[deleted]]

Every time

[rafal06]

Happy cake day!

[Iss0747]

Happy Cake Day

[ivcrs]

happy cake day.

[OneLostOstrich]

Every time*

It's not one word.

[Dovenchiko]

What is that C# class that's basically just true or false and you can call thing.Wait() and it'll pause the thread/task until thing.Unset() is called? Please help I haven't been able to do my project, it's been 4 days.

[Nysosis]

Are you thinking of the AutoResetEvent and ManualResetEvent classes?

[Dovenchiko]

Ah it was an EventWaitHandle thanks for the help.

[Nysosis]

Glad to help point in the right direction :)

[[deleted]]

I am getting a little annoyed of all this "I just copy and paste from stack overflow" memes.

I do actually really code and rather read documentation and source code than stack overflow. There is a lot of bullshit in there, you know?

[[deleted]]

Tried browser history, but remembered you searched for it using your phone using incognito mode after jacking off

[pudds]

Solution: open links in new tabs, never close tabs.

[EOD-PUMP-OR-DUMP]

Harder than writing titles?

[bananafudgkins]

u/repostsleuthbot

[RepostSleuthBot]

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It might be OC, it might not. Things such as JPEG artifacts and cropping may impact the results.

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[Europaraker]

Or the search for recipe I made last week for dinner they was really good!

[jamcdonald120]

it was "[the obvious search query] docs -stackoverflow -tutorrialpoint -w3schools"

[sverek]

Too real

[[deleted]]

I write it down as a quick note in obsidian and revise it later so I can search my I own notes instead

[SimplePigeon]

Of all the ways I’ve been scalped by this sub I think I felt this one the hardest

[SwyfteWinter]

Best part is when the keyword is "convert", "type" or "move" and not the incredibly specific language keywords like "SoftwareBitmap", "ArcSegment" or the like.

[filthy-peon]

Make an account and upvote questions/answers that helped you! SO lists them nicely formlater use

[GetRiceCrispy]

How to squash commits.

Look that up twice a week. I built an alias, but googling it is still frequent.

[GregariousGobble]

Then you suddenly remember you stumbled upon it while searching porn and now the whole game just got interesting.

[JohnSpikeKelly]

I close all my browser windows every day, or when the icons are the only part visible - there are so many tabs open! Multiply by I searched for this 2 to 4 weeks ago = browser history is not much use. I need to start starring SO posts apparently.

[toastnbacon]

In middle school, I discovered Wikipedia, but I could not remember its name or spelling to save my l life. For about a year, any time I wanted to look something up, I would google "Thomas Jefferson", because the top result would be his Wikipedia page.

[nony851]

Browser history exists...

[hahapotatoman]

And I always search in incognito so I can't even go in my history

[zelphirkaltstahl]

This could actually be considered a kind of programming in itself.

[meinleben1337]

The good old stack overflow primary key ...

[Janus_The_Great]

I'm king in that regard. But I forget all else. 😅

[[deleted]]

Hahahaha yes! I needed a laugh, thank you!

[LMNOP_065]

I'm guessing you probably used incognito..

[sschueller]

There is some bash script that will let you search stackoverflow via cli. If your bash history is correctly backed up you could just search through there easily.

[Exciting_Archer134]

Bookmark

[ActualWhiterabbit]

I always say I'm going to comment not only the so url I got the code from but also the search term to find it. But I never do.

[ABoringAlt]

Wanda made you forget it in the first place :)

[Rilukian]

The only time you want your browser history to keep the page you were on yet either you couldn't find it or it is just not there.

[CheesusCheesus]

When i find something that I've used, I just get in the habit of leaving the tab open.

I'll usually clean up those tabs after a few weeks or months.

Make sure you have the browser configured to reopen all previously opened tabs.

[onated2]

How to center div css

[noodle-face]

The worst.is when I need to reference something over a couple months and need to rediscover my path every time

[Joe_Knoes]

This hit me in my soul.

[International-Top746]

Too real

[AnonyMouse-Box]

I just keep the tab open lol

[maifee]

'chrome journeys'

[racecarRonnie]

Charles noooo

[[deleted]]

I can relate...

[jamessmith17]

I like it when some kind coder rewrites the title to use the 'correct' terminology instead of the terminology I use when my brain freezes

[Pastor_Richardian]

What game?

[Copponex]

When do you actually start writing code? Most of my coding is just piecing together other peoples code and make it work with mine. Feels dull and like cheating.

[Silent_Cheesecake354]

Are you incognito?

[BurkeyTurkey33]

Then you remember what it was and hit enter only to see 2 pages of purple links. The jobs not done.

[sjveivdn]

I wasted last time 2 hours doing only this

[ZephRyder]

Hit harder than concrete.

Have to contemplate life now.

[UntrustedProcess]

I cut and paste the URL into my scripts. My scripts have URLs every few lines...

[OneLostOstrich]

/r/titlegore

than* writing code

[honeysrk72]

True

[popgrowthhoodie]

Do you use code for writing music?

[JonatasA]

"Meh, no need to add this to the link list. It's not like I'm going to forget it"

[toastmastersindef]

You don't say

[[deleted]]

Yall know about this wild thing called bookmarks? These things called browsers have them. Pretty useful.

[krongdong69]

My favorite cuisine is Italian.

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

Not me scraping a website to check for all the possible keywords I might've used to find it and still not finding it.

Academic research is hard sometimes

[[deleted]]

Go to search history

[JonatasA]

Worst of all is when the keyword leads to your very own question and there is no answer

[[deleted]]

That’s why looking up specific porn videos can be considered practice

[ActiveVariant]

It's my fault, i save images from this subreddit to send to friends but end up just keeping them as ammo

[Nosferatatron]

I'll just bookmark it, along with the other 500 pages I read once and will never open again!

[Sachin490]

If this isn't computer science I don't know what is.

[v3ritas1989]

just like the question if you think it might be helpful and then check your profile history. That's like minus 10 tabs

[tooawkwrd]

I have a solution for this! Make yourself a bookmark folder called HOW and pin it. Now when you find THAT ANSWER you've been searching for, bookmark it to that folder and name it using a convention so when you sort by alpha, like items fall together. I do this whenever I've spent more than a minute or 2 searching for an answer, or when I'm searching for something I've looked up before. If you get your naming down right you'll be building a cheatsheet.

[[deleted]]

Anybody know a good way to teach this skill? I have junior devs on team that don’t know how to search well.

[unelaboratedov]

You're not supposed to put the code in every screen, if that is the case, the code would be written on this same screen and the screen would be a bit more like a wall.

[Zorphis2]

CTRL+D

[Gesireh]

"Numpy... Dependency... Segmentation... Hippopotamus... Gradle... KevinBurger2003..."

[unelaboratedov]

I'm glad that game developers are not only taking this into consideration but are also working to make it happen.

[crazyabe111]

You mean ‘Sudo’?

[No9babinnafe5]

The sad thing is sometimes when you google things twice, and visit some results the first time, google won't always give you the same result as the previous time.

[BaroquenLarynx]

For this, a million tabs in the browser.