Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ...
by kbelder on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:06PM
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Half the programming questions I have are something along the line of:
"In this random language I'm using this week, is it strlen? len? length? count? And iIs it a static function or an object method?"
or
"How do I get the day of the week from a datetime variable again?"
Stupid little things where I just need a reminder. Half the time, the answer is in the search results themselves and doesn't even require a clickthrough. W3 is fine for those sorts of questions... it's brief and to the point, and the fact that it doesn't go into thorough explanations or weird edge cases is even a good thing.
"In this random language I'm using this week, is it strlen? len? length? count? And iIs it a static function or an object method?"
or
"How do I get the day of the week from a datetime variable again?"
Stupid little things where I just need a reminder. Half the time, the answer is in the search results themselves and doesn't even require a clickthrough. W3 is fine for those sorts of questions... it's brief and to the point, and the fact that it doesn't go into thorough explanations or weird edge cases is even a good thing.