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To refine (1), you could try site:stackoverflow.com option because there are so many copypaste sites out there. This has been especially helpful for me when I'
by cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
To refine (1), you could try site:stackoverflow.com option because there are so many copypaste sites out there.
This has been especially helpful for me when I'm searching for an open source library. I use the site:github.com along with the keyword, it's 100 times better than searching on github.
- mettamage 10y agoThat's an awesome tip. You reminded me of a 4th strategy that is emerging within my realm of strategies. Which is: go to Github.com, search on the topic of interest, sort on most popular projects and check them out. This helps mainly with finding tools that are "best practices." It's a bit more hairy than the other strategies though and I'd combine this with searching on HN and Google, but I've noticed it works pretty well as a heuristic.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y agoThat's what I used to do, but i realized that github search is terrible for some reason. They don't display all results, so I would think that I've found the most popular library for X, just to find out later that it's not, and there's a completely different one that didn't show up on Github search. That's why I don't trust github search anymore and use the site:github.com approach.
- mettamage 10y agoHmm, using search engine X to search on website Y. That's an interesting tactic to keep in mind.
- roryisok 10y agoThis, definitely. Very useful. You can also search within stack overflow and limit your results by a certain tag, like this writing to a file [winjs] This will search for all matches which are tagged with "winjs". very good for targeting your search to a platform. edit: thats a tip for stackoverflow's internal search. not to be combined with site:stackoverflow.com in google. I don't think that would work