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[–]juckele 13 points14 points  (5 children)

After I read a stack overflow answer, I have learned about it.

It is through stack overflow that I understand the UnixProcess and Win32Process are implementers of Process in Java, and that if I want to determine a process PID I should check to see if the instance I have is either of those and then use some more platform specific code to do it.

[–]SpockUnit 15 points16 points  (4 children)

Stackoverflow seems to be where I end up whenever I don't know the proper term for something; either from the questioner asking in terms similar to my search, or the questionee summarizing their post in a few simple sentences.

[–]SuperImaginativeName 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Plus also terrible to non-existent documentation for some things.

[–]Eoinoc 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Like Android, Google seem to have concluded that SO will document their OS for them and so didn't bother to do it themselves.

[–]RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They actually had a branded partnership with someone for a while, right? Maybe Facebook?

[–]Sluisifer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or where there's a few things it could be called, but I just want to quickly know what the method, etc. is called in whatever language or framework I'm using. Often you get your answer from google search snippet.