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> "This particular thing doesn't matter because I don't need it. And because I don't need it, nobody needs it at all" This is all that I hate about stackoverfl

> "This particular thing doesn't matter because I don't need it. And because I don't need it, nobody needs it at all" This is all that I hate about stackoverflow.

lostlogin 10y ago
You don't know SO rage until you get a case of a small, inconsequential problem which is of vital importance to you. After heaps of searching someone else has posted the same issue on SO. Then reposted a while later with "Don't worry, fixed".
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
  That's just a bot someone made. It scrapes SO, constructs a model of question text and generates new questions from the model. Then, after a random number of days it posts that "Don't worry, fixed" you've seen.
  - quirkafleeg 10y ago
    What would be the point of that? What he's describing is something that also happened (with far greater, more rage-inducing frequency) on tech forums before SO existed.
    - celticninja 10y ago
      I believe it is a joke.
      - quirkafleeg 10y ago
        Oops. Thanks. I had a fear I was just missing a joke, but I have seen bots used on forums for no immediately obvious/spammy reason and I've also seen people genuinely imagine strange motives for relatively explicable things.
        dkersten 10y ago
        This is probably one of the reasons jokes are very much discouraged on HN. They pollute the conversation and add confusion. I too didn't notice that it was meant to be a joke.
        YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
        It's a joke. I thought it was obvious, I'd have laughed if someone else had made it and I didn't think it's polluting anything, not tucked away in this side-thread-ish.
- barking 10y ago
  Also the mandatory upvoted comment 'why are you using vb6'.
  - Bartweiss 10y ago
    "You should just tell the client that you'll rewrite everything from scratch in Rust rather than making this two-line fix."
- aargh_aargh 10y ago
  As always, releavant: https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
- katpas 10y ago
  I've been using React for my last few projects (not by choice) and have found this a lot. Maybe because its newer, maybe because it doesn't play nice with other front-end things. SO rage indeed.

> "This particular thing doesn't matter because I don't need it. And because I don't need it, nobody needs it at all" This is all that I hate about stackoverflow.

lostlogin 10y ago

You don't know SO rage until you get a case of a small, inconsequential problem which is of vital importance to you. After heaps of searching someone else has posted the same issue on SO. Then reposted a while later with "Don't worry, fixed".

YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
That's just a bot someone made. It scrapes SO, constructs a model of question text and generates new questions from the model. Then, after a random number of days it posts that "Don't worry, fixed" you've seen.
- quirkafleeg 10y ago
  What would be the point of that? What he's describing is something that also happened (with far greater, more rage-inducing frequency) on tech forums before SO existed.
  - celticninja 10y ago
    I believe it is a joke.
    - quirkafleeg 10y ago
      Oops. Thanks. I had a fear I was just missing a joke, but I have seen bots used on forums for no immediately obvious/spammy reason and I've also seen people genuinely imagine strange motives for relatively explicable things.
      - dkersten 10y ago
        This is probably one of the reasons jokes are very much discouraged on HN. They pollute the conversation and add confusion. I too didn't notice that it was meant to be a joke.
        YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
        It's a joke. I thought it was obvious, I'd have laughed if someone else had made it and I didn't think it's polluting anything, not tucked away in this side-thread-ish.
barking 10y ago
Also the mandatory upvoted comment 'why are you using vb6'.
- Bartweiss 10y ago
  "You should just tell the client that you'll rewrite everything from scratch in Rust rather than making this two-line fix."
aargh_aargh 10y ago
As always, releavant: https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
katpas 10y ago
I've been using React for my last few projects (not by choice) and have found this a lot. Maybe because its newer, maybe because it doesn't play nice with other front-end things. SO rage indeed.