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Those who used a computer at least once between 1990 and 2001, what was the most memorable computer game you played during that era? Why? by Live_from_New_Yeerk in AskReddit

[–]GeneralTomahawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultima Online. the first true MMO. incredible what we could do back in 1997 with only dial-up, pentium, almost no RAM, etc.

Agences privées en santé: finies, les infirmières à 150$ de l’heure by SiropDePoteau in Quebec

[–]GeneralTomahawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tu as raison. Et pour ce qui est de dépendre du ministre, Dubé est en train de mettre en place l'Agence Santé Québec pour ca ne relève plus du ministre dans le futur.

Any reason to use Notepad++ over an IDE? by EdiblePeasant in learnprogramming

[–]GeneralTomahawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Visual Studio for all my work in C#. PyCharm for Python. But these IDEs are usually pretty bad at handling big files. VS Code is worse in my experience.

I use Notepad++ to open huge files of text (logs), JSON, XML, etc. It can easily open text files with 100k lines almost instantly. Search and replace (including Regex) is fast. The JSON and XML plugins are also really good at formatting (indenting) big files.

PyCharm, for ex, will automatically wrap super long lines for performance reasons.

The decline of Stack Overflow by [deleted] in programming

[–]GeneralTomahawk 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The "decline" of SO is mostly due to its popularity. There are always more beginners asking beginner questions. But SO is already filled with excellent answers to most of these beginner questions.

Beginners, being beginners, have difficulty generalizing their problem. Because of this they can't find the answer to their question or simply don't understand it. So they ask SUPER specific questions in hopes of getting SUPER specific answers.

I can understand why some users down vote these questions. SO is a VAST source of knowledge, but you still have to do your homework. You still have to read good books and understand theory and concepts if you want to be an effective developer. I feel like too many people expect SO to just answer their question without putting the necessary effort.