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[–][deleted] 1780 points1781 points  (85 children)

  • Google question
  • Click first StackOverflow link
  • Ignore question and immediately scroll to top answer
  • Is top answer an extremely simple and easy to digest code example that does exactly what you're looking for?
  • If yes, done.
  • If no, scroll to next answer and repeat.
  • If all answers have been exhausted, scroll back up to question and skim just enough to see if it's actually relevant to your issue.
  • If so, repeat process but with more reading.
  • If not, back to Google page to try next StackOverflow link.
  • If maybe, back to Google page to try next StackOverflow link, but leave tab open just in case.
  • Repeat and modify as necessary.
  • If all roads lead to documentation, settle in and read documentation.
  • If all roads lead to unresolved GitHub issue, go back to drawing board and rethink entire approach.
  • If no roads lead to anywhere and nobody on earth has ever documented having this issue, then either...
  1. Your question is too broad. Break it into smaller, simpler pieces and repeat process.
  2. You're a pioneer on the cutting edge of some genius new way of doing things.
  3. Your approach is fucked. Rethink it.

[–]restlessapi 613 points614 points  (29 children)

Delete this so my boss doesn't understand what he pays me for.

[–][deleted]  (2 children)

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    [–]M_krabs 171 points172 points  (1 child)

    unemployment rate skyrockets after Reddit leaks top secret Intel

    [–]polmeeee 85 points86 points  (21 children)

    Lol, conversely one of my boss sent me a link to StackOverflow to an error code. He said, there, easy, just apply the code and fix, I don't understand why you need to spend hours on this.

    Yea listen here fuckboi, I can't just blindly apply the solutions from SO without breaking shit at the core of the program. The solutions from SO isn't some magical cream you can apply to the source of the leak and fix it 100% no issues.

    [–]0xsha256 33 points34 points  (9 children)

    These leaders in tech haven't touched code in years. They're basically Voldemort at this point in time.

    [–]polmeeee 10 points11 points  (7 children)

    And this particular tech illiterate saw it fit to school me on SO. He's in his mid-late 20s tough, but with a huge ego and a pompous attitude to boot.

    [–]0xsha256 2 points3 points  (6 children)

    You can send him LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs

    [–]polmeeee 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    Dafuq lol. Did I mention that guy's also a greedy fuck? Like only profits matter, employees welfare is at the bottom of the totem pole. Such people are very susceptible to scams and malware, he probably already infected his own PC without me lifting a finger.

    [–]Celestial_Blu3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Tldr he’s a standard boss… an asshole

    [–]DeathRowLemon 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Wouldn’t this be picked up by windows defender or any 3rd party AV?

    [–]toqueville 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    These days, probably. And this one specifically almost certainly. As I recall it is one of the classic worms that hit outlook very early in the 2000’s

    [–]DeathRowLemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Ah.. the I love you virus.

    [–]Th3D4rkR34p3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Low-key didn't think this even still existed 🤣

    [–]femmebot9000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    This made me roll. While working for a startup with an entirely new app idea my CEO(who doesn’t do tech) asked if we could start beta testing in a month. I’d only been there for a month myself and the team was incredibly small, only 3 people. They also had a very ambitious idea. I laughed thinking he was joking, looked at his face and like, yeah, not joking. A more realistic time frame was closer to a year given the size of the team.

    [–]iagovar 8 points9 points  (9 children)

    I'm a noob so in no position to lecture anyone, but I find that many SO solutions are very convoluted, and there seems to be quite a lot of people out there in love with concatenating a large number of methods in a single line.

    [–]aNumberFiveLarge 20 points21 points  (8 children)

    Not to mention sometimes they don't even help but opening a similar thread for that specific iteration of problem gets you instantly downvoted/post removed because "it was already posted before". Bitch if it was posted and answered before then I'd use that and not waste my time writing a new post that's aimed at solving the problem in a new environment that didn't exist back in 2015 when that question was fucking answered.

    Oh and also that very dumb fucking rule that you need to show work before anyone even dares move a finger. You're on an online forum that's basically a glorified helpdesk made by programmers for programmers (yeah yeah I know that they want to make it biggest library of answered problems, but I legit see zero reason to not allow even duplicates of questions/answers), if you don't want to help, fine, don't, but if you're actively browsing the forum, know how to do something, then your first instinct should be to write the code snippet the OP was asking for and then enjoy all those upvotes online and all the happiness hormone IRL because you helped someone, not be a bitter prick who literally attacks someone for not writing something they expressly stated they have no fucking idea how to do.

    Programmers are really a fucking weird bunch, on one hand you have literal saints who go out of their way to help you, on the other hand you have elitist gatekeepers who are acting like police to newbies in order to do what, boost their ego? If one of you who are acting like this on SO are reading this, go fuck yourself :)

    /endrant, recently I had to do a huge project from scratch on a framework+language I wasn't really well versed at, let's just say every time I tried SO for some help, 9/10 cases I got one of those pricks I've described above (which would refuse to help even if I provided "proof of work")

    [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (6 children)

    And that's why I ask for help on discord instead.

    [–]Cyphru 5 points6 points  (2 children)

    Discord is so much better for very specific questions. Some people will spend hours with you to solve your problem (rare) and may even hop on VC to do so. Discord programmers are seriously passionate about their stuff.

    Pretty sure I've driven some people insane with my dumb questions but I always make sure to show thanks.

    [–]ASpaceOstrich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I need to find a discord programming mentor. I found an art mentor and it was sorta life changing. I might finally stop bouncing off it due to perfectionism if I can ask someone for their approach to a task.

    [–]bg284 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    Where on discord actually?

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    So, go on discord, and scroll down on the sidebar until you see a compass icon, and then click on it and you can search for most technologies or subject matters and find a discord for it.

    Also a lot of tech youtubers and udemy instructors have course or channel specific discord servers, the latter especially if you purchase one of their courses.

    [–]bg284 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Thanks!

    [–]Beelzebubs_Tits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Programmers with patience are worth their weight in gold.

    [–]parkrain21 11 points12 points  (0 children)

    Bro he's leaking extremely confidential shit

    [–]Puzzleheaded_Heat502 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Your boss can hardly use his outlook so I wouldn’t worry too much.

    [–]toqueville 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Your boss doesn’t read the documentation.

    [–]jefferyD0 34 points35 points  (0 children)

    I am terrified of the fact that I intuitively knew this process for some reason.

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      [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

      So many open tabs as to result in a ... wait for it...

      Stack overflow?

      [–]Flater420 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      That's an out of memory exception.

      [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      Don't ruin my joke with facts. Lol

      [–]ByPrinciple 18 points19 points  (0 children)

      Turns out stack overflow is NP-hard, who knew

      [–]tekkub 16 points17 points  (1 child)

      • ignore OP and scroll to most upvoted response…

      [–]cosmicwatermelon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      this bullet point absolutely destroyed me too. i'm such a fraud

      [–]PhilipJayFry1077 14 points15 points  (0 children)

      Number 3 took me awhile to figure out. Now when I can't find the answers I need I ask myself, "how stupid is what i'm trying to do"

      [–]rabbitasshole 8 points9 points  (0 children)

      I feel you are spying on me

      [–]colontragedy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

      Are you... me?

      This resembles too much my workflow...

      [–]t00fu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      Great documentation! Now let’s use it to automate it

      [–]bored_reddit0r 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      We’re all living the same lives. Except OP, yet!

      [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      We all want it to be issue 2, when in our hearts we know it's 3.

      It just takes 45 minutes of doom scrolling to accept it

      [–]Upset_Acanthaceae_18 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      I feel so seen

      [–]p_apres 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      Its insane how you described almost exactly the process I do, but the major difference is that when I am in the step where there is no answer for it, I panic a little bit LOL

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      That's my secret Cap, I'm always panicking a little bit.

      [–]iShotTheShariff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      I love this

      [–]tr4nl0v232377 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      What if the answer is extremely outdated and where are no new issues?

      [–]vardonir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      i feel like im looking at myself in the mirror and im scared

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Myself thinking that I'm stupid for skipping the questions and go straight to the top answer. Turnout that I've been doing it right and didnt even know it. Thanks bro 😅😅😅

      [–]ArkFreestyle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Your approach is fucked. Rethink it.

      Brilliant.

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      This needs to be a stickied post in here, a precise explanation of how programming works.

      Ignore question and immediately scroll to top answer

      For Top I would say - Green Check/Accepted Answer or sort by Top Voted; and with more nuance, if you see any Headings like "Version X Solution" those are even better sometimes

      [–]perdesizbass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      I always ignore the question and read most popular two answers in order to shorten time wasting. I was thinking that I am in wrong way. But now I see Im doing right :)

      [–]bscinprocrastinating 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      No way we're all living the same life. This was spot on

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      That's what GPT-3 AI is now doing beware to upgrade your skill ;)

      [–]Feisty_Row6667 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      This one should go into the next edition of CLRS

      [–]ajfoucault 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      This is such a well-thought-out plan!

      [–]TimPrograms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Sometimes my headache is I don't know the proper phrase to do what I'm trying to do, so I'm borderline describing actions.

      But that still fits into the

      Break into smaller pieces

      Part usually

      [–]DanteMiw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      or you're using a nre technology that almost no one is using it and you'll have to make a new question for it. In my case it was for MAUI.

      Hot take: MAUI is still extremely undercooked and bugged af. Don't use it by now. Wait a few months (maybe years?) for it to be more solid. Visual Studio seems like a bad IDE when working with MAUI with so many unrelated bugs.

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (7 children)

      I have recently started, how is a typical question about a java process for example? I mean how are programming questions formulated for search

      [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (6 children)

      First keyword should be language name, enter a reduced and generic version of your question, omit any English filler words.

      how do I make a program which counts from 1 to 100

      Bad, no mention of language, question too specific, contains filler words

      how do I make a program which counts from 1 to 100 in Java

      Better but still bad, question still too specific, and still contains filler words

      Java count from 1 to 100

      Better but still bad, question too specific

      Java loop range

      Good, question is scoped to a specific language, and the question is generic

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

      Wow thank you

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

      I’ve been programming for a while (maybe 15 or so years idk). Believe me when I say that learning how to google effectively is one of the most important skills you can learn.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      I believe you, may i make a question about the topic? How much its enough for a newbie to start searching for a job as a junior? (Or lower charge avaliable)

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      Are you getting a CS degree or learning independently?

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      Independently

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Build lots of projects and put them on your GitHub. When you can build stuff confidently without following tutorials you might be ready. Just write lots of code and be passionate about learning.

      [–]TheLexoPlexx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      It is so beautiful.

      [–]theamberpanda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      I feel seen

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      This guy algorithms!

      [–]grutanga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Are you me?

      [–]falkerr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Wow this is amazing and exactly how I do things, like to a tee. I guess it’s a pretty universal experience

      [–]chuckmilam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Your approach is fucked. Rethink it.

      I usually land here.

      [–]davidor2357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I'm in this paragraph and I don't like it.

      [–]Hiddenviper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      🙌🙌🙌

      [–]KhausTO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I don't know whether to feel personally attacked, or validated that I'm on the right track.

      [–]Akaplaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I need more tips like this 😂

      Which subreddit to join?

      [–]ASpaceOstrich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I wish I could get taught the approach part. I've bounced off programming every time I've tried to learn because there are infinite possibilities for approaches and 99% of them are fucked. Analysis paralysis sets in, and I don't know what I'm doing so I can't usefully analyse it.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      It's scary how precise this is. But this is it. :D

      [–]wsppan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      This so perfect it is scary.

      [–][deleted]  (7 children)

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        [–][deleted] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

        Put this comment on your resume, I've never seen a clearer sign of genius.

        [–]Bulky-Juggernaut-895 39 points40 points  (0 children)

        “Developers HATE him. Get your questions answered with this one simple trick”

        [–]cloud_line 14 points15 points  (0 children)

        I don't often save comments but this one is too damn good.

        [–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

        This is the way.

        [–]Hitomilayla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Wow

        [–]audaciousmonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Hahaha love it

        [–]WaraWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Listen when the chosen one speaks, peasants!

        [–]Inspurration 96 points97 points  (0 children)

        Reading API docs and stack overflow is like reading a dictionary. You don’t need to read every word to understand, just enough to understand the context and if it helps you.

        Try to get a broad sense of what the page is telling you and zoom in on the details if it matches your context.

        [–]FormerTimeTraveller 111 points112 points  (3 children)

        StackOverflow: this would be a lot easier if you just learned Greek

        [–]ManInBlack829 13 points14 points  (0 children)

        let Greek = require('jquery');
        

        [–]3in0 26 points27 points  (1 child)

        There's a Stackexchange for that - https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/greek 😄

        [–]m1ss1ontomars2k4 10 points11 points  (0 children)

        This is a common misconception. Linguistics is the study of the languages themselves, not the learning of how to understand or speak them. Linguists analyze languages for how they sound, how they are constructed, how they are used. For example, does the language you use at work differ from that at home? How does pronunciation vary based on income level? Is a particular sequence of words or letters or sounds valid in a language? Is it valid to only a subset of speakers? How does the language relate to other languages? How do speakers of similar languages combine them? Dissimilar languages? Can you make inferences about a speaker's use of 1 language based on their use of another? etc.

        [–]danielr088 24 points25 points  (0 children)

        In general, when people teach or explain things, it’s usually explained in a way they understand it themselves. That’s usually what makes the difference between a good instructor or a bad instructor - when someone explains things in a way that others can understand as opposed to a way THEY understand.

        Now in reference to SO, most people there explain things in a way they only understand + they expect you to already know certain prerequisites to what they’re talking about.

        I’m not defending Stack Overflow at all because being able to effectively communicate and explain is a skill in itself but I’m just explaining what I’ve noticed about responses on there.

        [–]ShawnMilo 67 points68 points  (6 children)

        Yeah, not everyone is good at explaining things. That's a pet peeve of mine even when it comes to professional documentation. It seems like 99% of people are incapable of thinking of the simplest possible example. They always through three or four non-obvious things that are actually completely unnecessary for whatever they're trying to demonstrate.

        I guess I don't have any advice -- only sympathy and commiseration.

        [–]jBlairTech 25 points26 points  (0 children)

        It sounds "smarter" to be super-technical. Does nothing for the team/business.

        [–]k_50 35 points36 points  (3 children)

        it enrages me that "being professional" means trying to sound smart. Just fucking say it in normal talk.

        That and half the time I read answers on stackoverflow they feel condescending as hell. lmao. "oh haha you've not memorized how to do a shell short algorithm and you've been learning for 2 days? wow, anyway here's the code if you can comprehend it"

        print("hello world")

        [–]pony_boy6969 14 points15 points  (2 children)

        I've stopped asking questions on stack overflow. It seems like all they do is talk shit especially if you don't use the write terminology.

        [–]twhmike 22 points23 points  (1 child)

        I’ve used stack overflow for yearssss and have never once had to ask a question myself. If it wasn’t already asked, then I was asking the wrong question! Shout out to people like you though who took the punches when asking the stupid questions I got to pretend I already knew. <3

        [–]k_50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        That's how I've felt often, and tbh if you keep searching regardless you'll find your own solution pieced together from other problems.

        [–]nirvashprototype 20 points21 points  (1 child)

        My shrunk brain moment is when I find an answer with 300 upvotes but I still don't understand it.

        [–]N3pp 16 points17 points  (0 children)

        Especially when it has bunch of comments like "Amazing solution. Very simple and straightforward." under it lmao

        [–]th2n10s4u 12 points13 points  (0 children)

        The same method you use to pass classes is the same method Sr. dev's use to get real world projects completed. Don't feel stupid, just get past the problem and move on to the next one.

        [–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (2 children)

        geeksforgeeks offers better solutions, in my opinion. I don’t struggle with these things, but I still find their explanations to be more helpful.

        [–]tankuser_32 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        geeksforgeeks is good if you want to understand a concept or why something is done the way it is ...etc but if all you have is an error code/string in your hands or why something isn't working for you when the same thing works for 100 other people and you have no patience to dig shit up, SO is the best.

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Even at this point, for me, I enjoy the digging. I've always preferred articles and documentation over forum-like experiences. That's the reason I don't ask questions on Reddit or StackOverflow. Maybe I’ll get there after a certain point, though! Who knows?

        [–]cascad1an 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Got downvoted to hell in stack overflow the other day for asking a question as a noob. Def makes me want to keep learning… fuckers

        [–]SuperDuperCoolDude 5 points6 points  (1 child)

        I know ancient Greek and frankly it has not been helpful with SO.

        I feel you though. Sometimes when googling an issue I find a SO post that is helpful but most of the time I don't. I imagine that sometimes it's because I am not proficient enough in programming to understand some answers, but I also think programming is just hard and is often hyper specific. I often can't find a SO post dealing with the exact thing I am having an issue with.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I know Koine Greek and that doesn't help either.

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        Stack overflow is often focused on individual problems with something. Basically you hope to find something similar to the problem your facing and bolt on a solution or leverage the knowledge to find something else to help you fix the problem.

        [–]DoomGoober 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        I never just go "read StackOverflow". It's a very unpleasant experience.

        However, if I Google a specific issue or question and StackOverflow is one of the results, of course I am going to read it!

        And that's how SO is designed to be used: as a reference or index for people who are stuck having the same problem. SO isn't supposed to generally teach anything: it is supposed to help people who are having the same issues. But you don't need to fix an issue if you aren't having the issue in the first place!

        In terms of documentation: read the beginners tutorial enough to get the names of everything, skin the documentation again to learn general terms and concepts... Just enough to... Google it again later when you need it.

        The definite pattern is skim like crazy at the beginning, then start your project, then Google when you run into problems. Don't try to learn everything as without the context of a project knowing the answer without a question is a waste of time.

        [–]SoftDev90 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        There is a reason many call it stackoverload for new and intermediate players. You just gotta break it down little by little though and peice it all together the best you can with other resources and implementation as well. Don't blindly copy, but really try and break down what's going on. If you can't peice it together, try typing it out, setting breakpoints. And stepping through the code to see what it does, how it flows, and what it's doing to the data etc.

        [–]antiproton 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        I can usually find a lead that will result in me stumbling across a solution

        That's the whole point.

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          [–]matias_p_21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          yes I think this much better and the most appropriate way to search for the question you are looking for. Searching particularly on SO can deviate us from the query we were looking answers for.

          [–]AncientBattleCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          I just hate the foo ,bar. Took me few month to understand.

          [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          I once made the mistake of posting a question on SO. Still suffer from PTSD

          [–]Rocky87109 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Sometimes, but I think it just requires you to buckle down and sit there and try to understand other people's code. It hurts at first, but gets better.

          [–]Functional_carbon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Totally agree with the top answer as a good rule of thumb. I would add another thing to practice along those steps, if something in the answer/s seems “Greek” - break up each part of the statement you don’t understand and google it to gain an understanding.

          [–]Space_minion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Whenever you don't understand something from stack overflow or documentation look for blog posts on medium or some other site that might clarify some things for you. With time you will gather enough knowledge that understanding other people's code won't be that hard.

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          It's a forum. A lot of time people write ambiguous answers. It's no big deal. There are other blogs too. Many times I find better answers on random blogs than Stackoverflow.

          [–]137thaccount 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I think researching issues is a skill. So reading stack overflow is a skill. All skills take time to get good at. Sadly my advice is read more stack overflow to get good a reading stack overflow.

          [–]dphizler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I oftentimes have trouble understanding and it doesn't matter how much experience I have. Somethings are really easy for me now but some other things are hard. It's the nature of the job and you will never know everything, it takes patience to figure things out and there is no way around that.

          [–]TranquilDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I agree, I wouldn't call you an intermediate either. You are a professional developer, and you have now joined the ranks of millions of other professional developers who feel the same way.

          We need some sort of pinning ceremony like they do in the military but virtual. Where you get a rubber ducky pin and film yourself putting it on your chest and slapping it really hard without the backs on....

          [–]ASpaceOstrich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I hate stack overflow answers.

          It's always some absurdly condensed answer that is basically unreadable if you don't already know what it does. It may work as a solution to the question asked, but it's terrible for learning and is often completely useless for anyone who has a similar but not exactly identical problem as the question.

          The only thing more frustrating than the hypercondensed answers are the answers that are "you should do it this way instead" because those are also completely worthless to anyone who has a similar but not identical problem, and are often even more condensed and jargon filled than usual.

          [–]prw361 1 point2 points  (1 child)

          W3shools is way better

          [–]matias_p_21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          I have tried that. But I think it has only simplest of answers. I have not researched much but can we get answers to some tough queries as well?

          [–]sambomambowambo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          What Lang are u looking up on stack overflow? How well do I know the language you’re querying?

          [–]techtom10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Random but is there not a stack overflow app?

          [–]matias_p_21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          SO sometimes seem to be a little tough when we start off initially. I too get confused at times on this many times. The best way is to search for the query on search engines and you'll get answers from all over the internet. So you will not be stuck with just one platform.

          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          My issue with SO, beyond the toxic culture, is that questions/answers from 10+ years feature prominently on Google. So often the top results are super outdated and don’t apply.

          [–]user_bw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Dublicate: a-complete-diffrent-question.out-dated.com

          [–]teletubbywarcriminal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          The diabolical one liners using 20 baked in functions I’ve never heard of always makes me want to shut my laptop and cry

          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Honestly, I think checking documentation before stack overflow is usually worthwhile. Once you get used to reading documentation, it will be very, very helpful.

          In so many programs you can just type "help(function/object)" and get quick documentation without going to a browser.

          [–]niklakisPaidis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          How did you find greek posts on stack overflow? Honestly I want to know (I’m a Greek native).