Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
by AngryData on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:19PM
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How does "give you the information you need" mesh with "The point is not to solve the problem"? They seem like mutually exclusive goals for 95% of cases.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
by zahlman on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:13PM
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> How does "give you the information you need" mesh with "The point is not to solve the problem"?
The same way that a K-12 education does.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
by n5NOJwkc7kRC on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:47PM
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Oh, so... not at all? No, seriously, K-12 education is pretty infamously bad at giving you the information you need.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
by dxdm on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:39PM
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I don't understand how you can read all this and conclude that people get the information they need.
In fact, your latest response is so far out that I've started to seriously wonder if you're trying to troll. If you aren't: sorry, just trying to tell you how this comes across as absurdly disconnected. If you are: you're bad at trolling, or a master at satire. Either way, I'm outta here.
Yes.
We consider that duplicate.
Because the point is whether the question is duplicate, not whether the problem is duplicate. The point is not to solve the problem, so it isn't interesting whether the question is "appropriate to" the problem. The point is to give you the information you need.