Stack Overflow is overrated

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Coded a nice, useful project + fixed 3 bugs without even looking up stuff on the internet. Usually I do have to tho so that was a good week I guess.

How do you mean? You ask questions and get answers... what's to be overrated?

@simeg I mean that a lot of people think that stack overflow is the best thing that every programmer has and can't live without it. That if stack overflow is down, nobody is able to write a single line without bugs. That 47.24% of a programmers time is spent searching on stack overflow. Sure, it is helpful for finding answers, and some are very good at explaining stuff, but it's not essential. I made an account when I started coding, because it "sure is the most important thing, right?", but the only thing I have done with it is changing the profile picture, because I simply don't use stack overflow that much. When I search my problems on Google, I mostly find the answer on some specific forum for that library I'm using, or more often, in the official documentation for it, no need for stack overflow. I'm not trying to say that it is not useful at all or that it should be taken down because nobody uses it, but that it is not essential in every programmers life.

@simeg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@MatiasConTilde I see what you mean now and I agree.

To me it was mostly useful when I started programming, nowadays I mostly dig through documentation or source code if it's OSS.