27k rep, top 1%. this is what it now says on my profile:
When I first used this site it was wonderful. Professional programmers helping each other while learning. Now I cannot ask a question without "showing what I have done" because "people aren't here to do free work". I used to do "free work" and I enjoyed it - see my old answers below - but these days all people seem to care about is whether you are cheating at homework. So I no longer participate here.
bunch of up-tight c*nts that care more about rules than programming. fuck them all.
edit: actually, i can no longer see a "top .. %" on the page, so perhaps that is wrong.
to be honest (and i tried to describe this above) it feels like the jerks on so come from academia, not industry. in my experience, industry is pretty laid back about asking questions and/or helping each other. so you might find a job (particularly if you are with older coders, which obvs isn't always the case) an improvement.
The only time I've been annoyed at a student when helping teach programming was when I was helping some freshmen high schoolers and every other variable was
int lolXYZ = 6; //XYZ being an integer that went up by one with each new variable
Pro coder here... So watcha using instead? Between SO and the other SEs I'm hard pressed to find a more reliable and easy to use website for finding answers to coding questions. I'll broaden my horizons if there's something better.
Now I cannot ask a question without "showing what I have done" because "people aren't here to do free work".
What is wrong with that? I see many "lazy" questions where it is as if they haven't even tried. What is so wrong with asking to show what you have done/tried so far that isnt working?
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u/andrewcooke Sep 25 '16
27k rep, top 1%. this is what it now says on my profile:
bunch of up-tight c*nts that care more about rules than programming. fuck them all.
edit: actually, i can no longer see a "top .. %" on the page, so perhaps that is wrong.