>> This article captures the smug prickishness that stackOverflow increasingly celebrates. How is the article smug? To me, it comes with good tips for beginner

>> This article captures the smug prickishness that stackOverflow increasingly celebrates. How is the article smug? To me, it comes with good tips for beginners on how to approach a problem and solve it effectively without having to wait for hours on random people on the internet. >> And so what does the article do? It begins by belittling the student How does the article belittle the student? >> telling them their question was not worthy of the great community Should HN allow everyone to post whatever they want, or should new users rather learn the rules, scope of the site etc.? This is called basic moderation. >> Let's be honest, the intended audience isn't students, its other StackOverflow contributors and its purpose isn't to teach but belittle. No, it's not. It's to have a good source one can point beginners to in the future. Good for them, good for SO. >> A good article on debugging could be useful. This article is good for beginners. You are just so biased and full of hatred for anything mentioning SO that you're not seeing straight.