Post AcBsGye6slqkHdeY7s by holgerschurig@emacs.ch
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(DIR) Post #Ac92LXJ2NJXd0PjHDk by galdor@emacs.ch
2023-11-24T22:01:17Z
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Stack Overflow did not exist when I learned programming and I'm grateful for that. I'm convinced that this website is a net negative for beginners:1. You mostly do not have to figure things out by yourself and can just copy/paste/adapt complete answers. Digging in documentations and source codes is essential.2. You mostly learn to do it wrong: there is good information out there, but the signal/noise ratio is incredibly low and you as a beginner have no way to distinguish good and bad advices.
(DIR) Post #Ac94xAokdQDEAgdbPs by jonocarroll@fosstodon.org
2023-11-24T22:30:29Z
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@galdor counterpoint: when I was first learning a new language, when I was okay-ish but needed to be challenged, I lurked on the new posts tagged with that language and tried to answer the questions. If I had the best answer, great, but I learned a lot when someone else had an improvement or alternative.I used it as a pool of exercises to solve.
(DIR) Post #Ac96VPsdErnsgfLSOO by galdor@emacs.ch
2023-11-24T22:47:54Z
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@jonocarroll > If I had the best answerSo you believe that upvotes are a proxy for correctness? From what I see on a regular basis everywhere on the Internet, the most popular answers are rarely the best.
(DIR) Post #Ac98RxKh7XZpBkwt96 by jonocarroll@fosstodon.org
2023-11-24T23:09:40Z
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@galdor no, by whatever metric the problem required
(DIR) Post #Ac9NgXUWyl9IhPxgCO by veer66@mstdn.in.th
2023-11-25T02:00:20Z
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@galdor I copied and pasted from a book. 🤦🏾I didn't realize why I cannot run cc on DOS. 😛
(DIR) Post #AcBsGye6slqkHdeY7s by holgerschurig@emacs.ch
2023-11-26T06:52:33Z
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@galdor Keep this post on your TODO list, to repost it slightly changed in 10 years. Just replace "stackoverflow" with "CodeLlama" or whatever LLM new programmers will use then :-)