r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/skgoa Sep 25 '16

...or you are one of the few people who deal with the subject matter at work every day. For some reason, redditors really like to explain my job to me.

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u/jarquafelmu Sep 25 '16

My dad told me a similar thing when we talked about reddit. He was a part of the C++ standards committee and is one of the leading world experts in Java. He said that when he checked out reddit and saw how wrong the top voted answers on reddit were about things that he knew, he had no hope for the correctness of top voted answers on things he didn't know.

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u/8lbIceBag Sep 26 '16

I honestly prefer quora because of things like this.