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Re:Why I Skip Stack Overflow by dozzie on Saturday February 20, 2016 @07:54AM (#11139885)
What kind of things you are talking about? I only use StackOverflow undeliberately, when it pops out for a (mostly trivial) ramp-up code snippet I could find in documentation, but I'm too lazy to dig in it.
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Re:Why I Skip Stack Overflow by rosehill on Saturday February 20, 2016 @08:00AM (#11139893)
Say for example things you have coded before but can't remember the syntax off hand. Might quickly look it up on StackOverflow. It's like having a pair coder with you.
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Re:Why I Skip Stack Overflow by dozzie on Saturday February 20, 2016 @08:11AM (#11139925)
You can quickly look it up on any general internet search engine. I don't see why StackOverflow is somewhat special here.
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Re:Why I Skip Stack Overflow by LenSys on Saturday February 20, 2016 @09:52AM (#11140233)
That's what I don't get either. StackOverflow is definitely a good website, but why limit yourself to one site when you can just google your problem and likely find more answers?
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Re:Why I Skip Stack Overflow by manicdee on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:01PM (#11146815)
Because you're not more likely to find more answers. You're more likely to find Yahoo answers, which aren't really answers.

Quantity does not make up for quality.

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