Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ...
by kungito on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:33AM
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I believe if nothing else then it's the fact that there are more programmers meaning less hardcore people who just want to get shit done and move on
Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ...
by kuzimoto on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:21AM
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I think this is accurate. I'm pretty technical but with no formal education on programming. Currently I can only tinker with programming in my free time. There are a lot of huge gaps in my knowledge and it sucks sometimes, but at least Stack Overflow allows me to solve certain problems more easily, so I can get on with doing fun stuff.
Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ...
by arghwhat on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:55AM
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Regardless of trade, I never approve of this mentality as the "shit" rarely gets done responsibly or sufficiently, as that cannot be done without fully understanding at least the chosen implementation.
Perfectionism is not required, and can get in the way of professionalism. This is about a minimum amount of responsibility.
(Learning is different though.)
StackOverflow has many great explanations, which are no different than reading a chapter in a book (it's just a book that is extremely relevant to you problem).
The problem is that lazy people demand code dumps, and lazy people provide code dumps instead of explanations. This then becomes a feedback loop as people get used to this degree of laziness.
This is especially rampant for Web topics, and to some extend also a counter-argument to the Borland help pages with examples: When presented with a fully written solution, people will blindly copy it and only do the minimum amount of work to make it run.