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SO, although can be misused via copy & paste to production, is one of the greatest productivity boost I've ever had ( I'm 15+ years of experience ). Sure I rem
by drinchev 9y ago
SO, although can be misused via copy & paste to production, is one of the greatest productivity boost I've ever had ( I'm 15+ years of experience ).
Sure I remember having lots of fun with Turbo Pascal and paper books, as well as Perl and `man perlre`, but nevertheless there is always one weird error that will cost you half a day of debugging, which nowadays is replaced with 5 minutes googling.
SO community are doing fine job with preventing bad code left without the warnings, but anyway I think SO delivered more to programming than it actually took.
- fit2rule 9y agoI think the SO mentality leads to lazy developers who depend too much on the wisdom of others and don't do enough to push their own forward. Too many times I've seen "tech departments" sitting around, incapable of doing anything productive, because "the internet is down". This is a real issue, and I wish it got a bit more attention from the cognescenti .. we are producing generations of robotic developers who can't get anything done without hand-holding...