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Plus, for specialized topics, a good portion (10-15%?) of the top-voted answers are just wrong or misleading. About once every few weeks in reviewing one of my
by ap22213 10y ago
Plus, for specialized topics, a good portion (10-15%?) of the top-voted answers are just wrong or misleading.
About once every few weeks in reviewing one of my team's code, I see something strange. I ask them about it, and they say they did it that way because of SO. Then, I have to explain why it's not a good idea to do in our code. Then, I have to spend a couple hours showing them why, because clearly 'everything on the Internet is correct.'
Overall though, SO has saved me a TON of time over the years. But, lately I have been more often reading user mailing lists or looking at the source code.
- Annatar 10y agoStack overflow can save a lot of time, but only if perused by someone with experience who is just looking for their next clue, and will know how to turn a low quality but correct answer into a clean solution. In such a case, stack overflow can be very useful, but then the same goes for any random Linux forum.