I'm not sure why people are downvoting you, because you are absolutely right. StackOverflow was built for questions like this; but these questions are not the

I'm not sure why people are downvoting you, because you are absolutely right. StackOverflow was built for questions like this; but these questions are not the main reason Hacker News exists. Pointing the person to a resource that could help him better is valuable. Upvoted.