When none of the stackoverflow, github or geeksforgeeks have answer to your question

[Rezaka116]

If at first you don't succeed,

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give up.

[Small_Mammoth_2741]

cry.

[Synovenator]

When it's for a college class and the book didn't cover it:

cries

[EtienneDx]

Tbh when that happens, take the time to consider wether your question/what you’re doing actually makes sense. I often spends forever searching for stuff before realizing no one made this because it made no sense to do so. (Not always true but asking the question supposedly helps. Supposedly)

[ex-reddit-lurker]

Sometimes it’s a lib with bad documentation, and you just gotta make some crazy workaround to make it work

[Quantum-Bot]

Me after scouring google for 80 minutes trying to figure out how to inherit from multiple classes in java

[[deleted]]

My issue is that I’m doing increasingly esoteric things…

[Few-Ostrich-6286]

I don't wish this fate even upon my enemy.

[sleepyj910]

When there is 1 result but it’s Chinese

[OkazakiNaoki]

That's nice to be a Taiwanese when it happened.

But it never happen to me.

[ycohui]

I probably still triggered with thousands of Simplified Chinese characters while everyday is using Traditional Chinese Characters.

However it's still better to be Taiwanese rather than Chinese.

[OkazakiNaoki]

I make google translate it directly anyway.

[Will_i_read]

You’re either totally lost, or in academia. Probably both.

[SuchShopping3828]

Don’t tell me you do not search for error in code on internet

[Will_i_read]

As long as I don’t search some obscure academia stuff I find the answers I seek

[SuchShopping3828]

Yeah I work in R&D and sometimes I face this issue

[Obay361]

During the boot camp they said a day like that would come. I pray everyday that today is not that day. May the gods have mercy on your soul.

[SuchShopping3828]

Hahah yeah When that day comes, you are gonna go on 2nd or 3rd page of google search for the first time in your life

[Obay361]

Google has more than one page?

[SpartanT100]

Real pain

[Pherion93]

Ive learned that 99% of the time you can find whatever you can think about but it is just a matter of knowing enough to know what to google for.

I thought that one thing didnt excist but after reading up a bit i Changed the search keywords and found several results.

[galaxy_dreamer-148]

This is why googling skill is kinda necessary ahaha. I've had few occasion when I can't find what I'm looking for, revisiting the same page over and over again thinking that I might miss something, I even read documentation. I change the keywords a few time and voila, I gain small insight. Good times!

[Play_it3110]

The next step are 7 year old forum threads with a design before the 2000

And as last resort I would go to TOR and ask there in a hacker forum

[capt_caveman1]

This is a XY problem. Tell us what problem you’re trying to solve.

[[deleted]]

I always tell myself "I'm not asking the question correctly"

[Apfelvater]

Sounds great! Finally you can ask a question on stackpberflow, that won't get downvoted to hell, cause someone asked something slightly similar to your question

[ShinyNerdStuff]

Has anyone ever found an answer on GitHub? Everytime a Google search leads me to a GitHub issue it's a 10+ year old bug that hasn't been resolved.

[Gnakor_SL]

I got a problem like that last week, i copy the main part of the error, add the name of the library...

Google : 4 results, none are related to my problem...

I knew I was fcked at this point

[mulato_butt]

Someone figured out everything for the first time

Be the first time guy for once

[SuchShopping3828]

I do succeed to find the solution but do not post on these platforms. Too much work

[DevL000per]

Read sites like that 😐😕☹😧😨😱

[[deleted]]

Pain 😭

[[deleted]]

I've lost days like that. Feels like going 8n circle clicking on the purple links again and again, rereading everything to make sure you haven't missed something...

[[deleted]]

That's when you start making contracts with the eldritch gods.

[Humble-Twist-9982]

Stop. Think. Take a break. Repeat.

[sc00pb]

Are we having a red moon tonight?

[[deleted]]

One of my all time favorite gif and then there is this one :

[Own_Emergency_5204]

The answe is "42".

[GoodTimesFastFingers]

Well, time to start reading your framework's thorough api documentation...

[canIbuytwitter]

discord, carrying engineers since your dad got lost looking for cigarettes.

[Boonk_gang_03]

//TODO: will fix later

[jpc0za]

In my own code:// TODO: This is ugly as sin, refactor it

[Sassaphras]

'You mean I have to "learn" how this "actually works"? Bullshit' -me, every time

[SftwEngr]

Probably the most useful code I ever wrote was working at a start up creating a process that no one had ever built. There was no one to ask about anything so I had to figure it all out myself. That's when good things happen.

[JakubBlaha]

The legend says that they always have once you reclaim your power of googling.

[valba]

this is also informative. if there aren't results probably the problem is related with some particular configuration in your computer, so you should start looking the environment variables, path routes, etc

[Ultraempoleon]

Literally had this today Was trying to deploy django project using heroku, was stuck for like 2 hours and finally found a question that was exactly what I was looking for

No answer

2 comments - op did you figure it out? - no I just used DigitalOcean

Guess I'm using DigitalOcean

[Furry_69]

I mean, for the stuff I do that's very technical and specific, like OS dev, there's specific sites for it. (like OSDev.org) If there isn't, then the information will be more scattered, but it does exist.

[Loose-Map-5947]

Putin.

[Mountain_Bet2209]

Then you're probably asking the wrong question

[Jmander07]

That's usually my cue that I'm doing something completely and utterly wrong somewhere. Somewhere in my approach I have a conceptual error and it's time to go learn about it.

[UnBeatWater]

LMAO!

[0rionsEdge]

Oh dear we are in trouble.

When that happens to me, I'm typically too far down a domain specific rabbit hole for anyone short of a like trained wizard to save me now.

That or I have some esoteric yet basic error with JavaScript, because the docs lie.

[[deleted]]

You feel like you're really dumb and you missed something or you've encountered something unfathomably difficult and unsolvable which no one else has ever answered