Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?

Re:Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer... by zsombor on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:06PM (#6851153)

More likely it had merely promoted the quick and easy pop culture, where people no longer take the time of reading a book. After all you can just use google and look up your next short fix.

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Re:Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer... by thibaut_barrere on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:16PM (#6851223)

Oh I hear you! I can't say how much I regret all the time spent in the 700-800 pages of these Wrox or Addison-Wesley books trying to find that one line fix. These were the good old days!

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Re:Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer... by InclinedPlane on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:21PM (#6851259)

Every Wrox book I've come across has been terrible. If I wanted to read raw documentation I'd do that, when I spend hard money on a technical book I want to benefit from some practical expertise and I don't want an infodump of reference info that's already out of date by publication date.

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