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protip: you can also increase your StackOverflow clout by merely asking or answering the most generic basic questions. You'll look like a community expert and
by caprese 7y ago
protip: you can also increase your StackOverflow clout by merely asking or answering the most generic basic questions.
You'll look like a community expert and thought leader in no time.
Helps the resume inhalers that weigh these arbitrary things.
More complex questions about specific frameworks or how that might work with your ORM and memory cache just don't get the attention.
- war1025 7y agoDo people really use StackOverflow for answering job-related programming questions? The only time I found the questions on there useful was when I was a first year student learning programming. Maybe I am just bad at searching / asking.
- caprese 7y agoI did, you just abstract the problem out. Some programming language and frameworks have more active communities on StackOverflow than others. So in my sprints, I would typically have 3 tasks in progress at once: 1 I would work on myself, 1 would go on Stackoverflow waiting for the answer, and 1 would be something that required progress from a different team in the company (like a new API endpoint so I could do something on a frontend, or different service) It was pretty efficient for me. In some communities, the real thought leaders and framework developers are on stack overflow, watching the hashtag like a hawk. You can also use github issues on the actual package you have issue with pretty well too, alongside it. So you're really crowdsourcing a lot, and evaluating if that solution is correct enough for your implementation. But so many times, especially with frameworks, the answer is a good copy and paste job. your mileage and use case may vary.
- ubadair 7y agoI graduated 5 years ago and I still use it daily.
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