I am someone who tends to work from first principles, to a fault. It slows me down a lot. But it's like a compulsion. StackOverflow has improved my programmi

I am someone who tends to work from first principles, to a fault. It slows me down a lot. But it's like a compulsion. StackOverflow has improved my programming life dramatically, because it makes it a lot easier to "memoize" the search from what you're doing down to first principles. Whatever question you're trying to get clarity on, there is probably a StackOverflow answer out there that builds a positive case for a particular option, going all the way back to primary documents like standards.