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Comment by andreilys

5 years ago

Even worst is the meme that “programming is just copy+pasting from stack overflow”

Because good senior programmers are rare (as can be observed if you post a job listing).

Most of this stuff comes from students / junior developers, where yes, they probably visit stack overflow every 20 minutes

  • They should try programming on an airplane or without internet connection. For some the productivity drops to zero without stack overflow.

    • "For some the productivity drops to zero without stack overflow."

      And it is bad to be a newb? And even for experienced devs to go to stackoverflow regulary ... isn't it productive, to not always reinvent the wheel?

      I can solve allmost everything on my own. But if I have a new problem, I assume someone else already had - I would be stupid, to figure it out on my own, when I could get a working solution in 5 min googling.

      But I actually programm without internet connection most of the time, as I like being outside, away from noise (and wifi)

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    • i grew up a long time before stack overflow. actually used man pages and read books. there is just _no way_ to program in Rust or Go without access to a search engine and the package libraries.

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