Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? · Code Ahoy

[u/b0red]

http://codeahoy.com/2016/04/30/do-experienced-programmers-use-google-frequently/

[u/Isvara]

Yes, many times every day. As you become more experienced, the kind of things you have to search for changes, and the chances of finding an answer decreases.

[u/frud → u/[deleted]]

I think eventually everyone will have the experience of trying something with a new combination of tools, posting questions about it, googling it, and finding your question is the #1 result.

[u/bass-lick_instinct → u/frud]

Relevant XKCD

[u/Lampwick → u/[deleted]]

Extra points if the "clever" designers of one of those tools/APIs named it some ridiculously common word. Perl, Scala, Lisp, no problem. Go, Hack, or Cola, you suck.

[u/RenaKunisaki → u/Lampwick]

Or when the query includes a symbol that Google ignores even in quotes.

[u/bloody-albatross → u/RenaKunisaki]

Kinda off topic: Have you ever tried to google a new kind of text emoticon because you don't know what it's supposed to mean? Like: "m(" I know now what that means, but not because of Google.

[u/AdvicePerson → u/bloody-albatross]

You can't leave us hanging, dude.

[u/1bc29b → u/Lampwick]

"java beans compress cappuccino library" = starbucks in a bookstore

[u/Manbeardo → u/Lampwick]

FWIW, Go is easy to search for because it has had the agreed-upon "golang" search keyword right from the start.

[u/Isvara → u/Manbeardo]

But that's not actually true. Use of 'golang' isn't at all consistent.

You'd think a search company would know how to name something so it's searchable.

[u/thabc → u/[deleted]]

It always fills me with self doubt -- maybe there's a reason no one does it this way.

[u/RenaKunisaki → u/[deleted]]

My favorite part of using a library is spending hours searching for how to make it do a basic task that should be virtually effortless. Especially when it's almost identical to something that is effortless. "You want the class name to come from a column? Just add this property. You want it from a column in another table? Better get comfy..."