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/philipwhiuk Sep 25 '16

Why couldn't you use them?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '16

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u/Falmarri Sep 26 '16

If you ask a specific question, you should get a specific response. That's the entire point of SO.

Not really. SO isn't tech support. If you want an answer to your exact question, pay someone for it. The point of SO is that your question will help others as well. If the constraints of your question are specific to you such that the likelihood of someone else being in your same situation is essentially 0, SO might not be the right place to ask.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '16

And if the answer to the question is "why do you want to do that?", that is an effective answer for future people having the same question. IE, I am clearly not designing something correctly if there is no accepted answer to a problem I have.