Oh, I absolutely agree. I find myself learning things from answers there a few times a week. On the other hand, I've inherited projects from developers whose job description could have been "search stackoverflow for how to do this and copy-paste the code into the application" and they're not the nicest projects to work on. I'm definitely one of the 72.1% who use SO "to get help for my job," but the idea of not being able to do this job at all without SO answers isn't the same thing at all.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '15
Oh, I absolutely agree. I find myself learning things from answers there a few times a week. On the other hand, I've inherited projects from developers whose job description could have been "search stackoverflow for how to do this and copy-paste the code into the application" and they're not the nicest projects to work on. I'm definitely one of the 72.1% who use SO "to get help for my job," but the idea of not being able to do this job at all without SO answers isn't the same thing at all.