What the fuck is their problem?

What the fuck is their problem?

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Their problem is that you don't know how to properly ask a question.
>Implying they're any worse than Jow Forums

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you are just too retarded.

the system is optimized to eject questions from foreigners taking cs101

Autism and a general lack of life enjoyment. SO status and points is their whole life worth and reason to live.

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indians

Jow Forums is unironically friendlier than SO

It is pretty good. I found leaving out any superfluous information or question backstory leads to better results. Like if you have a problem with a piece of code just show the code, no need to give any backstory don't engage with comments probing for it.

Those are the best ones. For every answer that pops up with an awesome solution when you google search there's 300 that have no replies or passive aggressive replies. It also depends on the topic. Fundamental questions about a specific language or framework will have awesome answers with 9000 upvotes but the moment the question gets a bit esoteric then no one has anything to say.

This thread has been closed as off-topic, marked as a duplicate, and put on hold as primarily opinion based.

Maybe learn to tell teh difference between opinion and fact?

bhenchod

>Something about having usernames and reputation points turns people into passive aggressive fags obsessed with showing off how much they more than other people

Pretty much this. They do a mostly good job of pruning out repetitive questions, but it would be nice if illiterate pricks would stop linking [DUPLICATE] to barely related materials. The exchanges vary, but gamedev is the worst. Half of the top results on Google for a common issue have responses with "just Google it". Like Jesus fuck, did you miss the whole point of the site?

But you really grow to appreciate the SE dedication when you see the sad state of other answer boards. UnrealEngine is a complete fucking mess. You're better off emailing the devs or something.

>autists anonymous

What the fuck is your problem.

>best questions and answers all belong to "This is only archived for historical reasons" locks
lmao I don't know how the people running SO think the past decade was headed in the right path. I get trying to stem basics like poos asking how to for-loop or kids looking for homework help, but they stymie things over the pettiest and stupidest reasons. It's like idiots who vote to delete everything on wikipedia because they have some absurd ideal; for SO a question should only be on the site if there's an answer to it. Not to mention all the blatantly outdated or horrible answers which can't be updated and your question will be locked because it's a duplicate of that one.

I find it less and less useful every time I search. For web tech, forget about it. For other programming topics it's usually fine depending on the obscurity of what you're using.

Leave your feelings at the door and it's suddenly a great site. Yes the people there are autistic as fuck but I wouldn't have it any other way, back up your claims with facts and you're good.

The worst thing, which ive seen multiple times, is people being adement that something is impossible (or even more autisticly, saying it can be done, but they arnt going to tell you how because its 'pad practice'), then eventualy someone comes and shows its actually pretty easy. For example for reasons outside my control I had to access a private variable in a class in C#, searching gives you some SO questions to do the same, with the people saying they know it should not actually be done, but they still want to know how. Every fucing answer is some retard givign a patronizing answer lie 'you cant! private veruables are called private because you cant access them [link to very basic intro to C#]'. after 30 posts of exactly this finally someone shows how to actually do it using reflection. This is an extreme case but even for relatively simple things that most programmers should know how to do you get the same type of retarded answers telling you its impossible. Semi-advanced things like dynamically changing lambda expressions at run time are a complete clusterfuck with most people answering obviously not even knowing that C# has classes specifically to manipulate them. Then you get people who claim you should never use a language feature because they never use it, probably because they've never had to work with production code in their life, partial interfaces for example allows you to define an interface in 2 files, which we use a lot in code generated code, yet every question about it is answered with dont use it, its bad code/a code smell/breaks SOLID/breaks DRY/breaks some other made up term that they overuse. Pisses me off so much.

Honestly so much this. I work for a company that been using Perl sounded the 90's for their websites, and as such we still use libraries from the 90's and any time I go looking for help all I get is "duuuh, you shouldn't be using that. Try these handful of Perl frameworks." Like, no shit I shouldn't be using it, but it's so got dang embedded into it systems I'd have to start from scratch, which isn't in my authority to do.

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>Leave your expectations of discussion and community insight at the door and it's suddenly a great site.

"This smells like an assignment, so I won't answer but I'll write how it smells like an assignment anyway, while telling this guy how HORRIBLE he is for asking a question about this divine assignment.
Also this question has been asked already xd"

JQuery

they're pushing too hard on the "we're not a forum" thing
anytime you want to ask a question that doesn't have a clear answer it gets closed as "not constructive" or "opinion based"
which is 99/100 questions once you get past basic programming

Also

>Go to stack underflow
>Ask to do X function
>Get 30 line solution that even (You) with your level of autism cannot possibly read and make sense of
>Get mad and study the problem using official documentation
>Take a bit more time but..
>Come up with equaly working 5 line of code solution

Ery facking tiem, I use this site to force myself to read and study documentation, after getting frustrated with inane code posted by smelly curry minions that write code with their own feces.

Sure you can solve this tasks, but why reinvent the wheel? Just install this pooinaloo library and all of its dependencies. It will work just fine.

It may sound autistic but I never ever use code that I don't clearly understand line by line and make sure it's the cleanest and most efficient way of doing something.

>how do i do x in java using the standard library?
>"i recommend library y"
>"+1 for recommending library y"
>"thats bad code, breaks SOLID principle"
>"question closed as duplicate [link to unrelated question]"

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>[link to unrelated question]
You're lucky you got a link.

i love reading these if its a slow day at work, its funny because they are actually serious

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switching from googling/SO answers, to actually reading documentation is the first time I actually felt like I am improving

niggas, always try'na make up issues
trigger, a rap code,uh oh you got an issue
stack up, over the flow f*** em lose em find a solution,
crack up the doc, no commentary, trust no dim convention,
back up, elementary betta Watch out for pythons some anacondas taking care of execution,

Best regards,

call me autistic feel artistic seem archaic, haiku on a high cue

chigga leaking sittin on desu

>"Girlfriend feels she distracts me with her texts, any good way to prove otherwise?"

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>"How can I tell my closest online friend that I'm actually male?"

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I'll make stack overflow but better

Some questions of stackoverflow are amazing, and you would not be able to find the answer except by digging through to the (no documentation). But all of these questions stem from 2012, and if the piece of software is ever upgraded to version 3 or 2.1, RIP the method.

What really gets me about Stackoverflow is the edit feature. My only question on Stackoverflow is how do I mount an NTFS Drive on Linux. The maintainer that was basically the stackoverflow version of pic related, edited out the part of me saying I have already used fstab to no avail. Me being under some insane amount of rep was unable to edit my own question.

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What the fuck
interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/15934/how-can-i-tell-my-closest-online-friend-that-im-actually-male

the top reply opens with
>When I was younger I was in a similar situation with an online friend. In my case, I'd told them I was far older than I actually was.

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Stack Overflow serves a specific purpose: answer basic API questions and commonly occurring errors. And it does that fucking fantastically. Who gives a shit about communities?

lmao

slightly more civil Jow Forums
not relevant to op's question

If the question is too basic then you just get a bunch of passive aggressive comments. If the question is complex enough that it isn't solved by looking at documentation then suddenly all the passive aggressive fags who respond to dumb questions in 2 minutes are nowhere to be found.

This bothers me a lot too

>Trying to figure out the cleanest way to do shit synchronously in nodeJS
>Top answer
>"node is supposed to be asynchronous. You shouldn't want to do anything synchronously"
>Bottom answer
>"here's a nice solution I do when I want to do that"
>0 upvotes on the answer that answers the question

Only thing I notice is a huge amount of threads closed for such little reasons

>I'm a guy in my early twenties who loves to write, and as it happens, I enjoy pursuing online roleplays with other writers. As it also happens, most of the characters I'm inspired to write happen to be female.
>When the topic came up, I lied and told him I was a girl.

classic

The things is that question asking about ways to misuse something must be backed with significant amount of explanations (from the op's side) on why couldn't the issue be resolved with other means. If someone is asking a way to access private members from outside or for a way to use asynchronous JavaScript runtime synchronously then there is a 99% chance that op is doing something wrong or the question itself is an XY problem.

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I think a lot of times people dont even read the question to the end, sometimes it will say why they want to do it, or say why they want to / have to use a specific library or method, yet people still answer with shit like dont do it/use something else

I work in a big company with big messy complex systems that were written by dozens of programmers years ago. I don't have the power or the time to come and say "hey guys we're going to spend the next two sprints redoing everything so we can make sure it follows the spirit of nodeJS :)". You can answer the question or you can stay silent. Inserting your opinion that no programmer should ever want to or have to do something a certain way doesn't do anything but inflate your ego.

Well, since people are lazy and in 99% cases "dont do it/use something else" would be a correct answer it is only natural for such situations to occur.

You can't use existing crap code base as an excuse to write more crap code. Actually ability to fix long living problems without halting everything is what separates a skilled developer. And you can't call an "inserting your opinion" when people are pointing that you are misusing something that has a rather clear purpose. You can drive in nails with a dildo all you want, but if everybody else is telling you to stop doing this or use a hammer instead then you should follow the advise.

>"dont do it/use something else" would be a correct answer
its not even an answer, its a non answer, its just shorthand for 'i dont know how to do it and I like to insert my opinion into places it doesn't belong'

>You can't use existing crap code base as an excuse to write more crap code. Actually ability to fix long living problems without halting everything is what separates a skilled developer.
>t. most complex software worked on it a manga downloader

interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/7482/how-to-talk-to-my-brother-about-a-shared-interest-in-pornographic-furry-material

A good developer isn't a guy who spends time writing perfectly optimized assembly code for every problem. A good developer is a developer who identifies the issues to be solved and thinks of a clean way to solve it quickly that won't produce bugs. If I'm adding a function to an internal webpage accessed by a total of 4 people a dozen times a month then whether or not it's synchronous or asynchronous doesn't matter. A total of 10 seconds may be lost over the course of a year due to the synchronous solution. A good programmer would happily do that if it's the quicker and easier solution given the existing system in place and then a good programmer would quickly move on to do more important tasks.

You've obviously never developed in a professional environment and given what you wrote, you're probably the same fag on stackoverflow who pretends to be an expert.

seriously dont know what the fuck im reading here

all the new terms are equivelant to reading "my first goobaglob girlfriend(male) was actually a gibblegoober before she transistioned into a gollopagos" fuck this world

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I'll cut you, pussy

>t. most complex software worked on it a manga downloader
>You've obviously never developed in a professional environment
You guys gotta be top-tier experts to to figure my qualification based on just a couple of Jow Forums posts. I guess i should change my ways and from now on i'm going to carefully explain various workarounds for accessing private members when i encounter a question like that instead of closing it.

Just don't share your opinion on things that you don't know much about

The good questions get no visibility, and get downvoted for being too broad or poorly worded. The bad questions that are easy to answer get voted as the top questions site wide.

Was the question 'is it good practice or acceptable to use reflection to access private variables?'? Then go nuts. Was the question 'How do I access private variables (even though It might be bad practice)?'? Then don't post shit irreverent to the question and just move along if you don't know how.

marked as duplicate

When I was a beginner it was a shit site because SO is really antinoob,
now that I have experience under my belt it's still a shit site.
I'm better off working out the solution alone than using that site.

Don't give them any ideas.

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In most cases you are right, but there are a ton of people on Stack Overflow with high rating that are unable to read or understand a question.
If you a have question that is highly version specific or just SOUNDS similar to something not really related, like for example Perl6 vs Perl5 or edge case it's likely someone will link an unrelated answer and close your question because he is too dumb to realize that those are not at all the same thing.

When it comes to all those Python and Java questions, yeah the answer is that OP just sucks and wanted to be spoonfed.

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