Re:Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?
by nanospeck on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:37AM
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Start asking questions in Stack Overflow. I wish I started doing this years ago. I used to be just a non participating reader for a long time. Once I got the taste of it, I ask questions frequently now. If you are stuck with an issue for over 2 hrs, ask in SO. There are so many knowledgeable people who will guide you to in the right path and save you hours/days! The best part is you'll get a response when you are back after coffee or max on the next day morning when I come to work. I've started trying the same thing in HN as well lately :) .
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Re:Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?
by joegreen on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:44AM
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Well, I don't have similar experiences with SO. Sometimes I feel that easy questions are being answered very quickly by many people because everyone wants to get reputation points quickly, but difficult questions are often left unanswered forever as they require a lot of effort and don't bring as much reputation to the answerer (as their potential audience is not so wide).
Re:Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?
by junto on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:14PM
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That's what the bounties are for.
Re:Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?
by nanospeck on Sunday August 14, 2016 @11:04PM
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Yes for questions with very less audience, you can offer a a bounty after a limited duration (3 days if I remember). You will have to give away your points as bounty. If you do not have enough points to give away, sign-up on other Stack Overflow affiliate sites that give you 100 point for every sign-up. And give it out as bounty.