> I suspect most people don't like reading reference material so asking random stuff on SO works for them That's a dismissive way of framing it. There's nothin

> I suspect most people don't like reading reference material so asking random stuff on SO works for them That's a dismissive way of framing it. There's nothing anti-intellectual or lazy about using the tool that will most efficiently retrieve the information you're looking for. If I'm faced with a non-esoteric problem that I don't immediately know the solution for, I'd much rather spend 5 seconds Googling it and being brought to a highly relevant Stack Overflow answer that addresses my specific problem than having to find my way through a poorly-searchable manual.