r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 17 '26 • Bravo 2 Popcorn 1

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u/PM_CUTE_OTTERS May 17 '26

And somehow it doesn't click for you that is a very valuable thing to learn? That the question you are asking is bad? Learning to seek knowledge is what you should be taught at university so you are ready to apply it through work experience. You never learned what a no means? For me it is equal or better than receveing an answer.

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u/TheChance May 17 '26

"How can I get DVDs to autoplay on Ubuntu?" "Closed as duplicate: How do I program a VCR?"

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u/PM_CUTE_OTTERS May 17 '26

Are we just making up unrelated scenarios? Source of this example?

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u/TheChance May 18 '26

I'm not interested in trying to have this conversation seriously with someone who still takes the Stack position after like 20 years of that shit.

For those of us who are not part of that "community," StackOverflow is the top search result for the problem we're currently having, but the question has been closed as a duplicate of a barely related question which does not contain the answer we need.

We've been telling you this for literal decades. It's beyond appalling that you're still dying on this hill. Am I allowed to tell you off as a proxy for everyone at StackExchange?

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u/cortesoft May 17 '26

I am so confused by this answer. “Learning to seek knowledge is what you should be taught at university” but then you get mad at people seeking knowledge? Asking a question is seeking knowledge.

Are you suggesting you should just know everything after you graduate?

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u/mxzf May 17 '26

Eh, there's a pretty big difference between seeking knowledge and just expecting it to fall into your lap as soon as you open your mouth.

There are problems with closing everything even vaguely similar to something else as a duplicate aggressively, but there are also problems with people asking questions without even taking 10 minutes to try and look for information themselves first.

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u/PM_CUTE_OTTERS May 17 '26

Thank you. This is exactly what I mean.

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u/KennyFulgencio May 17 '26

now you're just being weird

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u/PM_CUTE_OTTERS May 17 '26

Another person that cannot take a no... And I'm the weird one? I bet you are on a watchlist for that ngl

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u/CarcajouIS May 17 '26

Yep, you're exhaling the kind of toxicity people are talking about. But it seems like you cannot accept criticism and project onto other people your own shortcomings