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  • @SuperSoftAbby
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    151 year ago

    I’m constantly baffled by my coding professor suggesting stackoverflow to students for asking questions because of the experience I am seeing others have there. The new ones are always downvoted and the only reply usually just calls the person stupid. I’d just kinda accepted that this was the culture I was going to matriculate into when I graduate.

    • @zeppo
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      241 year ago

      It was good when it was relatively new. The culture quickly turned toxic, as you’re seeing, and it’s been getting steadily worse for years now. There is a lot of useful information, and often the only thing online with code examples for a certain programming issue. but it is also increasingly outdated, in part due to the ‘no repeat questions’ thing. I have a couple popular answers about PHP and JavaScript from over 12 years ago, and they still get upvoted. Some people comment and say “this is answer is incorrect!” and… yeah, it’s from 2009.

    • @impulse
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      111 year ago

      I once handed in a citation from an answer to my Stack Overflow question.

      Something along the lines of… “After hitting a roadblock the community at Stack Overflow was consulted, as suggested in the lecture, and deemed the task not feasible [1].”

      The answer I put in the reference was one of the many variants of “Who in their right mind would do this in Matlab? Use Python instead.”

      I passed lol.

      • @kurwa
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        21 year ago

        I mean to be fair, that is the right answer. fuck Matlab.

    • @Maggoty
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      31 year ago

      I hate to say this with the current situation but Reddit was a really good place to ask. I’m not sure about digging up old answers in the same way though.