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Re:Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions by scrapcode on Sunday March 01, 2015 @03:26AM (#9126443)
I'm a hobby dev of 12+ years. I've yet to find a polite IRC channel or discussion forum that offers genuine help. The online community of hackers is MUCH unlike the real-world community of hackers that you'd meet at a conference etc, in my experience. =[
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Re:Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions by bjwbell on Sunday March 01, 2015 @03:59AM (#9126483)
I've been surprised by how helpful some of the devs on the mozilla #servo channel are to noobies NOT like other IRC channels I could name. In my experience smaller communities are nicer on average.
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Re:Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions by EduardoBautista on Sunday March 01, 2015 @10:38AM (#9127401)
The rust community is very helpful overall.
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Re:Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions by savanaly on Sunday March 01, 2015 @09:37AM (#9127146)
Much the opposite for me. I get help from IRC all the time, but the one or two conferences I went to no one seemed very talkative or helpful at all.
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