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Answering everyone's specific personal questions is geared towards beginners and doesn't add any value to others. E.g. fixing your typo doesn't help the next gu
by Etheryte 2y ago
Answering everyone's specific personal questions is geared towards beginners and doesn't add any value to others. E.g. fixing your typo doesn't help the next guy understand why their code doesn't work. Explaining the general case is timeless and valuable to all skill levels. There are plenty of sites that do what you describe, but there's a reason Stack Overflow became widely known and used instead: the QA is applicable to everyone working in that space, not just that one person who asked about their specific case.
- fanf2 2y agoI think StackOverflow has convincingly demonstrated that “timeless” in programming is about 5 or maybe 10 years.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoAnd that’s because programming languages move so rapidly, whether they need to or not. For some reason I can’t quite fathom there is always a desire to shake up the status quo, that particularly as a mechanical engineer I don’t understand. I don’t want some radical new way to integrate components, let alone new different components, I just want something that’s reliable and will be usable for a long time.