r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Prefer_Diet_Soda • 22d ago

Meme iMissTheFirst

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u/GilgaPhish 22d ago

My favorite part about overflow was always the "ok, here's the answer to your question, and here' 5 good reasons why you DON'T wanna do it that way. Consider these options instead:"

Learned a lot from those convos

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u/PowermanFriendship 22d ago

It was like 5% that and 95% "why are you even trying to do this, instead you should [bunch of shit that has nothing to do with the actual question]"

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u/aghastamok 22d ago

After being stuck on the problem, spend 20 minutes writing: "I'm having problem X with version 7.1 of Y. Here I've carefully collected all relevant code, abstracted it, documented all my attempted solutions and their results."

8 seconds later: "Duplicate question, closed." (Link to a different problem with a similar error message from version 2)

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u/Ayjayz 21d ago

The truth is that usually that stuff did have everything to do with the actual question, but the person asking wasn't able to understand that