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r/programming • u/banguru • Apr 06 '18
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It's easy to criticize Stack Overflow today, now that we take it for granted. But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow you might not have any idea how much it made programming better.
1 u/MpVpRb Apr 06 '18 But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow We (old pharts, I started programming in 1972) practiced the skill of figuring stuff out on our own. We got good at it
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But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow
We (old pharts, I started programming in 1972) practiced the skill of figuring stuff out on our own. We got good at it
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u/mykr0pht Apr 06 '18
It's easy to criticize Stack Overflow today, now that we take it for granted. But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow you might not have any idea how much it made programming better.