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Re:Back when not every question had an answer by niggler on Friday March 29, 2013 @04:49PM (#5462961)
The problem shifted from "solution is hard to find" to "solutions are abound, but its hard to find the best". Github has lots of code, and its really difficult to tell what are the best solutions (and of course, there's the whole issue of marketing, where some stuff that show up highly on google or github searches aren't the best but rather the most highly marketed)
Re:Back when not every question had an answer by mirkules on Friday March 29, 2013 @05:06PM (#5463048)
There is also a specific set of problems that require a question to be formed in, what I like to call "Google Gymnastics Language" - i.e. a unique problem space that uses common words to describe it so you have to alter your query. For example, searching problems in "CLIPS" programming language or tabs in Foundation (https://www.google.com/search?q=foundation+4+tabs).