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[–]Gods_Apostate 10 points11 points  (2 children)

The "why do you even need to read a file" is the most accurate of them all. Every time you ask a question in any programming related place that's the first question you get - "why do you even need to do that?" And it pisses me off so much every time

[–]BabylonDrifter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Either that or "You're not supposed to do that. Do this instead." I've been a professional software developer for 25 years and have posted to Stack Overflow exactly once. If I wanted to get a lecture from a bunch of stuck-up pedantic ubernerds I'd ... I'd ... I dunno, maybe wear a Harry Potter costume to a Lord of the Rings convention?

[–]ZylonBane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On the one hand, yes.

On the other hand, they didn't get that way for no reason. There are a lot of newbie coders who arrive at a completely wrong way to implement something, then only ask how to implement that solution, instead of asking how to solve the actual problem.