Re:Friction Between Programming Professionals and Beginners
by bloaf on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:51PM
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Except what I find tends to happen is:
1. You google the problem and find results from stack overflow and some out-of-date blog posts from 4 years ago.
2. You choose stack overflow!
3. The stack overflow question most related to the one you have is closed as a duplicate. The duplicate's answer is: "look at this manual: link" but the link is to some .edu website that doesn't exist anymore, or is for version 0.7 on a unix system and you're working on version 2.5 on windows.
In conclusion:
1. The world changes, so the same question may have different answers depending on when you ask it.
2. Having multiple different representations of a problem makes it easier to search for it correctly the first time, not harder (even if they all just link to one answer.)
1. You google the problem and find results from stack overflow and some out-of-date blog posts from 4 years ago.
2. You choose stack overflow!
3. The stack overflow question most related to the one you have is closed as a duplicate. The duplicate's answer is: "look at this manual: link" but the link is to some .edu website that doesn't exist anymore, or is for version 0.7 on a unix system and you're working on version 2.5 on windows.
In conclusion:
1. The world changes, so the same question may have different answers depending on when you ask it.
2. Having multiple different representations of a problem makes it easier to search for it correctly the first time, not harder (even if they all just link to one answer.)