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Agreed. I usually use 'site:stackoverflow.com [[query]]' in Google with search terms limiting pages that have been updated in the last year or so. Filters a lot
by martinald 10y ago
Agreed. I usually use 'site:stackoverflow.com [[query]]' in Google with search terms limiting pages that have been updated in the last year or so. Filters a lot of the very old answers out which often can send you on a totally wrong direction because the ecosystem has changed so much.
Perhaps SO will end up getting overtaken by a new similar site, not because it is intrinsically better, just because they reset the corpus of answers so the SNR is higher for a while? I imagine SO will become increasingly less useful as their Q&A gets older and older.
- mhurron 10y ago> Perhaps SO will end up getting overtaken by a new similar site It will, and then in 5 or so years we'll be hearing the same complaints about that service. SO's problem is people, so unless you can come up with a service that removes them you're going to have the same issue.
- douche 10y agoThis is really a much smaller problem if you stick to languages outside the churn'n'burn whizzbang web world. A lot of answers from the Java 1.6 era, or about .Net 3.5, or Python 2.7 are still largely relevant. Best practices in C/C++ have been even more static, aside from a few additions in recent modern standards that few seem to actually use.
- rubber_duck 10y agoC# changed a decent amount since 3.5 to dotnet core, similar to python 2 to 3 which also changed a lot of stuff. And C++11 is practically a new backwards compatible language compared to legacy C++. Java is more stable but at the same time it's also the slowest to evolve which is why many developers prefer C# even if it wasn't cross platform in the past - the language was just superior because of how fast it is evolving, considering that at 1.0 they were basically equivalent.