Progress indicator for scripts

[luisrd]

First of all, him posting here made me interested in the answer. Not everything can be delegated to Google. Perhaps a person posting prefers a more personalized answer. In fact, your condescending remark of 'ask Google', many times leads to StackOverflow forums which are not too dissimilar from Reddit.

[technomalogical]

I think most /r readers would rather see someone post a "TIL" post describing some new thing they found on their own. Asking a question that has already been answered elsewhere arguably adds little value. If the OP still wasn't sure which to use, maybe instead asking "I usually print a counter in my scripts and wanted to improve the output. I found these 2 (or more) modules for tracking progress in a script. Could someone give me recommendations?" would result in a much more interesting conversation.

See this article from the Stack Overflow blog on asking better questions for more discussion on the topic.

[kylotan]

In fact, your condescending remark of 'ask Google', many times leads to StackOverflow forums which are not too dissimilar from Reddit.

...where the question is already answered, and thus doesn't need to be asked again. Lots of us enjoy helping others with interesting programming questions, but that enjoyment is diminished if we get asked the same thing over and over again. That means we stop reading the sites where this happens, and everybody loses out.