Timeline for Overused or abused programming techniques
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 6:11 | comment | added | brettwhiteman | I thought your answer had some merit until I read "In my day..." At the time of posting this comment, we are in 2015. Why can't you just accept it and move on from back in your day? Next I suppose you'll think everyone should learn Assembly (which could actually be good in some ways, but that's beside the point since it is impractical) | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 19:48 | comment | added | Wayne Molina | And that's exactly the problem with this kind of site. It encourages answering easy questions or giving the "populist" answer that will get you the most votes. I have personally seen (and had happen to me) the best answer downvoted or not given upvotes while a one-liner or ridiculous answer gets upvoted and marked as correct, when it's wrong. | |
| Jan 19, 2011 at 0:58 | history | edited | Byron Whitlock | CC BY-SA 2.5 | edited body; deleted 6 characters in body; edited body |
| Jan 16, 2011 at 8:41 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Jan 14, 2011 at 10:37 | comment | added | IAdapter | the problem is that SO encourage this by giving a lot of rep for asking/answering very easy question that can be answered with simple google search. very hard question people answer only because they really want to. | |
| Jan 13, 2011 at 18:41 | comment | added | Peter Turner | No way, where I work this is chronically underused. I routinely send links to my coworkers to questions I hear them muttering to themselves that I ask on SO. And wow, I am in awe the man who contributed to 1% of SO. | |
| Jan 13, 2011 at 8:23 | comment | added | Edward Strange | LOL - I hate that so much and the funny thing is I get crap for telling people they could have done a little research and found their answer all the time. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 12:45 | comment | added | Orbling | @dbkk: Yes, there are simple questions with complicated answers due to edge cases and other hurdles. I meant people asking questions that are either so regular as to be impossible to miss if they had tried other avenues to answer, and the people who essentially give a brief, or put a ton of code on the screen and say "please fix it". | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 12:43 | comment | added | Orbling | @acidzombie24: You certainly have a lot of questions! Some are excellent, simple things, but very important that provide great question/answer sets for future readers. Some are a bit cheaper, but at least all your questions make sense and have some point to them. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 12:41 | comment | added | Orbling | @Konrad Rudolph: That method is good and wise, reading questions, searching well. The asking is best done when the asker has a framework with which to understand the answers. Too often people ask questions which they do not (yet) have the capacity to understand. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 8:54 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | I started learning from books but once I had a fundament I learned almost everything else from online forum discussions. Not by asking, but mainly (and at first, exclusively) by reading. This method has taught me several programming languages in excruciating depth (with lots of nooks and crannies), and I think it’s not a bad method at all. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 7:44 | comment | added | Matthieu M. | @dbkk: stackoverflow.com/questions/4665778/… --> first comment "did you ever try this ?" | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 6:30 | comment | added | user2528 | Just wondering, what do you think of my questions | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 6:22 | comment | added | dbkk | @Orbling Some problems are more difficult than it appears at first. The algorithm itself may seem straightforward, but real-world handling of edge cases (some of which often don't come to mind) is often significant. That's where community helps, even with simple issues. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 3:27 | comment | added | Orbling | I must admit, I do flinch at the audacity of some questions on SO. Either because they are asked many times every day and they have obviously not searched at all; or worse still, they treat the community as a free outsourcing service. | |
| Jan 11, 2011 at 22:48 | history | answered | Byron Whitlock | CC BY-SA 2.5 |