> 1. What your programming set up is. Interesting choice of question. When I do have tooling problems, I find that SO is often the first Google search result a

> 1. What your programming set up is. Interesting choice of question. When I do have tooling problems, I find that SO is often the first Google search result and I do use it in those cases. However, I don't find that tooling make up a frequent set of problems that need to be dealt with. Thus, while I can't say I've never used SO, it is a rare stop. More frequently, the problems I run into, and am more curious to see how others have approached them, tend to be tooling agnostic. If you're using C++, Haskell, or Javascript, vi, Notepad, or Visual Studio, the problem remains the same. Computational problems, not tooling problems, if you will. I find (which may just be my failure to find them) in these cases, SO more often than not has nothing of relevance. > 2. What you do when there is an issue? Still Google, but the results are more often personal websites and academic papers.