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For an amateur like me, who’s more concerned with getting his code to actually work, something like this is actually less daunting than stack overflow. The pro
by RONROC 6y ago
For an amateur like me, who’s more concerned with getting his code to actually work, something like this is actually less daunting than stack overflow.
The problem with stack overflow (again, for someone like me) is that issues posted on there get abstracted to oblivion, resulting in posters proffering a million different, mostly correct, mostly complicated, solutions. Also, I believe OP’s product has a way narrower scope than stack overflow.
SO is not going anywhere anytime soon. I just don’t see why it has to be the end all resource.
Assuming OP can find a good way to deal with duplicate entries, it seems like a more “to the point” version of SO that can be referenced before having to deep dive SO’s massive sea of information.
Just a layman’s two cents.
- alex_portabella 6y agoAgree with all this. I still use Stack Overflow all the time, when I google some strange issue I'm probably not going to land on howtoxwithy.com, but Stack Overflow.
- maccard 6y agoThe issues that get generalised into oblivion aren't the sort of issues that will end up on howtoxwithy though. You can't really abstract "concat two strings" any more, and both howtoxwithy and stack overflow both have the same answers for python: x + y > SO is not going anywhere anytime soon. I just don’t see why it has to be the end all resource. I don't think SO has to be the end-all resource, but to me it seems that this site is just a subset of SO's functionality, and doesn't provide anything different.