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Re:Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction by _rm on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:11AM (#37898704)
Back to working out the solution yourself?
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Re:Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction by lionkor on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:27AM (#37898899)
That's how most of my work and hobby projects go, but I hear there are people copy pasting code and refusing to read documentation.

Working it out yourself is always going to be a good way, IMO

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Re:Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction by wink on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:33AM (#37898950)
I think that depends on the problem.

My main use of SO is figuring out badly documented DSLs or configurations or magic annotations that have nothing to do with programming per se.

I can dig into a language I don't actually know and change a value or fix a trivial bug, as long as it has variables, methods and loops.

But I can't guess if @Zorpify is the magic incantation on a method that does something I don't know the name of.

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