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(Q: How much are you allowed to Google as a developer?)
“You’re allowed to Google as much as you want. This is not school, you’re employed to solve a problem. Nobody cares whether you Google for the answer or remember the answer from another Googling.”15 -
Teacher: answer this question without Googling
Me : *gives answer after using DDG*
When will people realize that Google isn't the only way to browse the internet15 -
Searched stackoverflow and found the exact issue I was having. The question is from 2014.
The accepted answer is a messy hack. Fuck.
The second answer is clean, clear, concise. It was posted 38 minutes ago.
Is this real life?9 -
If you ask a question in a forum and figure out the answer yourself, for the love of God, please post the fricking answer.
"Never mind" is not at all helpful. Ugh. Stop being selfish peasants.2 -
I hate when I go on stack overflow to find an answer, and all the comments for the correct answer say, "awesome thanks!", "Works perfectly now, thanks!". While I sit staring at my screen feeling like a complete idiot because I don't understand the given answer at all!13
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Yesterday all the staff were give a piece of paper with a question.
Question:
What will make you happy at work?
and our answer should be confidential.
My answer was: A Girlfriend
I' ll be going to the HR Office about this. I was just being honest.11 -
I wrote an answer, in my exam, about the precedence of operators.
Took a random example: "3+4*6", and explained that "*" has higher precedence, so "4*6" would be executed first and so on.
Long story short, this was the last line in my answer:
"The answer is 27, not 42."20 -
So I got an answer on Stack overflow
Answerer basically said "finding the error is tedious so I re-wrote your code"
They changed about 15 lines in their answer. I combed over it and found that I needed just one.
I put an answer myself, saying which line was missing (as the other answer didn't highlight the actual solution, and rather re-implemented my code)
My clear, concise answer was deleted by moderator for "Not adding anything new" (Except what the exact answer was to my problem, I guess)
Not my fucking problem. Make your own Q&A site harder to use, as if I give a fuck.21 -
I am a long time lurker on stackoverflow. There was a time I was stuck on an obscure error for so long but finally light shone when I found an answer to that problem on stackoverflow.
Overjoyed, all I wanted is to leave an upvote for the answer; before I realised that you need a +15 reputation before you can do (I know I am late in this game)
So I worked my way to that 15 and it was a tedious one. Stackoverlords deleting my answer, voting no to my edit and reverting another over petty reasons
I fought back by flagging my deleted answer with my reasons and alas the community backed me up by upvoting my answer (which was revived),the original answer poster approved my edit and @me a thank you comment. I was elated
And it is today, I got my +15. That I could finally pay back and upvote the answer from my benefactor4 -
If the below is you, please stop. I'm starting a revolution called #AnswerTheQuestion
A: Hey, just checked your code, you have a huge security issue in XYZ, you should really address that.
B: Oh god I had no idea, how do I fix it?
A: Well it depends on how you *want* to fix it, no one solution is always the right one.
B: ... Ok, well could you give me some advice?
A: Well, there are many ways to approach this kind of work, but all I can say is that this way, is definitely not the correct one.
B: ... Ok, well how would you do it?
A: That would depend on the customer requirements.
B: ... the requirements is to have a website that isn't easily hackable, what do I do?
A: Nowadays, its pretty hard to make a website completely not hackable.
B: ALL THE SERVERS ARE SHOWING RED, PLEASE HELP ME!!!
A: ........ you really shouldn't prejudge colours. The colour red doesn't always mean danger, depends purely on the use case.9 -
- I see a question on StackOverflow
- I write a detailed answer, providing a working code and showing a gotcha
- Another user, 1 minute later, answer saying "try this" and append a code which is like mine
- He gets upvoted and I don't6 -
Stop reading and JUST start writing code.
I've been stuck in coding limbo because I kept looking for the right answer.
And I've learnt over time that the right answer will come to you only when you know what exactly you're looking for.
So start coding.10 -
Dear, Random guy that I wrote you an answer on StackOverflow.
I spent 15 minutes GOOGLING the issue for you because you either were fucking lazy or don't know how to use Google.
I wrote an answer for you on your shitty question with -2 rep explaining how to solve the issue and you just replied thanks and didn't even bother to either upvote or accept my answer. Not only did I solve your question I did it to bloody help you and here you are with your attitude not accepting my answer, and replying with thanks that i feel like you didn't care for me writing your answer. You can bloody hell burn in hell. I hope there is a special place for you and people like you that magically go missing and never come back16 -
SO: How to ... in JavaScript?
Answer: use jQuery!
SO: How to ... in JavaScript without jQuery?
Answer: use jQuery!
Me: ffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I hate j-f*cking-query, I don't want to learn it!!15 -
One month ago. By email.
Boss: so, this client A has a problem with one of our devices and he believes that it's a bug in the software.
Me: all right then, what happens?
Boss: well, he says that the parameter P in the option menu does not changes the device's behaviour as it is supposed to. I'll forward you his mail. You will find attached an excell file with the results of his test performed with and without the parameter active.
Me: < read mail, read excell file > well, boss, his tests are performed in completely different conditions, how could he expect to infer a meaningful results from this?
Boss: damn, you are right. Send him a test plan and follow up.
Me: < send detailed test plan >
No answer in a week. Then...
Client: hi, there, I made this tests, I attached the excell with the results, can you check the software now?
Me: < read another bullshit filled excell file with none of the suggested test performed >
You know what? Just download the procedures you are using from the device and send them by mail, specifying the software version you are using so we can perform some tests here in the lab and get yo a solution asap.
No response. For a MONTH.
Super Boss: client A still has his problem, how could possibly be that it takes more than A FUCKING MONTH to solve his issue??
Me:...4 -
Friend: "what is the answer to this question?"
Me: "${answer}"
Friend: "yes, what is the answer?"
Me: "my bad"
Me: `${answer} is the answer`
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Damn you stackoverflow!
Why can't we declare an answer as outdated or deprecated or just plain out wrong!
I like that you have so many questions, yet when the correct solution is a 0-upvoted by a 0-rep user hidden at the very bottom between a huge amount of wrong answers and whereas the *accepted* yet wrong answer has upvotes that are skyhigh, it just wastes my time.
All that is achieved is a feedback loop enforcing a faulty answer will accumulate ever more upvotes. And waste somebody else's time in the future as well.
I cannot add the correct information, as that would harm the author's intent. I cannot edit the faulty answer to state that there is a better answer, as that would be an attempt to reply. I can downvote it, yet that just a tiny drop on a very hot stone.
All I can do is add a comment pointing to a correct answer, yet that is easily overlooked.
Come on, stackoverflow! This is madness!6 -
Honestly? People. For the first two years of my career I worked for an investment bank.. Basically working to make rich people richer. That, plus the technology sucked, made me change what I do.
I now work for a company that, while it doesn't cure cancer, it makes products that my friends use, my family uses, even my 1 year old son uses. And knowing I am making a difference in their life in even just a little way is worth it.
Also now that I have a family and a kid, my priorities have shifted and as much as I love coding, my family and kid will always come first now. Could I be making more at an investment bank where I worked 12 hour shifts every day? Sure. But it's not worth it to me.3 -
The most embarrassing moment is when you look at an answer in StackOverflow and think "Which stupid wrote this answer?" and look at the name only to realize that it was YOU!!!1
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I like paradoxes, I created one with multiple choice questions.
"Some stupid question" ?
A) answer 1
B) answer 2
C) None of the above
D) All of the above (paradox)
#killingtime6 -
CS Exam :
What is 3/2?
My answer : 1.5
Result : Wrong
Correct Answer : 1
Maths Exam :
What is 3/2?
My answer : 1
Result : Wrong
Correct Answer : 1.5
#Frustated (-_-)4 -
Guys, please help me answer this intellectual being. The more stupid the answer, the better. Even better is if there is like a fake loooooonnnngggg step by step guide of it. NB: tafadhali == please.
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You have a question.
You google it; nothing comes up.
You read the documentation; no good.
You ask it on stackoverflow; no answer.
You are in... The Twilight Zone4 -
After article 13,
Stackoverflow be like:
[this answer can’t be displayed because of copyright infringement]
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Oh my God. New pet peeve:
People who answer questions on Amazon with an answer like "idk I just got this :(" or "idk man I bought it as a present."
Why the fuck do you feel the urge to answer a fucking question without actually answering it? Like are you that fucking stupid? Jesus Christ.5 -
*Intensely staring the screen and solving a problem in my head, I can feel I'm close to the final answer, the answer to the truth, the holy Line of Code and that it will forever chang-*
PM: hey, do you know why my mouse doesn't click anymore?
...6 -
Spended 30 minutes try to answer a question on stackoverflow, the question deleted just before I posting the answer5
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When someone asks me what is programming, I usually say:
— That's something like assembling Lego, but you also get paid for it.3 -
Turns out Google round off the answer automatically, just like that, no side note, nothing, just round off.
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Me: API support, please check why I'm getting ECONNTIMEDOUT for 3% of requests
supp: before we look into this, please answer these questions: a), b), c), d), e)
Me and coleague: *spend 20 minutes gathering all the details into a nice answer. Post the answers*
Slack bot: *removes the answer [allegedly for compliance/security]*
api supp: any update?
..... I really want to smash smth. Hulk SMASH!!!3 -
fuuuccckkk stackoverflow.
q: "why doesn't python do this like i want:
me: "Here's an answer that quotes an article and links out explaining with Python 3.6.x doesn't allow that."
every fucker: "downvote, doesn't answer why it isn't allowed"
FUCK YOU, PROVIDE AN ANSWER THAT DOESN'T SAY WHAT I SAID5 -
*sees a question on StackOverflow*
*posts an answer*
*is informed that answers from this account are no longer accepted because of poor past answers*
*???*
Well fuck you too, SO. :P2 -
Most days I want to answer the question of “What do you do for a living?” with “I send emails”. It would sadly be a very honest answer.2
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Q:Why should a professor teach things that aren't in the source book?
A: so he can get an exam that not even himself can answer properly!
Q: But why?
A: no one knows the answer. It's one of the philosophic questions that has no answer. But maybe to hurt his students!5 -
Waiting for a answer, of the University i applied for (master degree) is like:
I need to check my mails
*5 minutes later*
I need to check my mails
They said, they will answer between 15th july and 1th september..3 -
I think there is such a thing as "getting too comfortable with the people you work with".
My boss came over and wanted to show me how to do a new process. We start going through the steps and a question arises. I then IM my team lead, because he's the one who would know the answer, and all I get back from him is sarcastic comments and profanity (he doesn't know my boss is sitting at my comp with me). So I keep trying to get him to be serious, and he just keeps his mouth (well, fingers) going. (He is remote - not in our bldg). I want so badly to shut him up because what if he says something about my boss while she is sitting there? Not that he does that, but at the pace he's going, it no longer would surprise me.
There should be some sort of code to hint to your team to STFU and give a fucking answer when one is needed. Sort of like what kids do to hint that a parent is in the room, but for work?3 -
That moment when you are looking for a solution for a problem, there is the exact problem already on the stackoverflow, but with no answer...
And then the feeling when you somehow solve the problem, post the answer and get an upvote :)1 -
A half answer on SO gives me a pointer to a possible solution. Using that pointer, I actually find an answer and it's quite involved. So to help others with the same question, I edit the answer to complete it with the additional steps. No edits to the answer involved, just a few additional steps.
😡 The answer author comments that they appreciate the info, but they reject my edit so their answer isn't changed!
What a douchebag.2 -
me: *goes to stack overflow to get some points*
*searches for questions I only know*
*scrolls down to find unanswered questions*
*keeps scrolling*
*finds a question I can answer*
*types in my answer*
*finds out that someone has answered
the question with better explanation*
*decides not to submit my answer*
*looks for other questions to answer*
*keeps scrolling*
*scrolls some more*
*scrolls for the last time*
*realizes I'm Jon Snow*
*exits stack overflow*3 -
I have this math teacher and, wow, is she good at math. And, wow, should she never enter another field in her life. Today she asked us if anyone does code. The answer is yes, but I refuse to answer something that uses code as a verb.7
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Hilarious answer guys! Experiences of a Dell field technician. Most are accidents, but did are pretty fucking stupid! Entertaining!
https://quora.com/Why-does-a-mother... -
OH MY GOD! I really just want to comment to that guys answer on stackoverflow, that he's right and his answer works... but I have only 4 reputation - because I'm a good dev searching intensively, finding an answer to almost everything a can think of!
If I ever get over 15 reputation (it's so sad, I know) stackoverflow will explode because of all my upvotes that are not counted until then... At least something satisfying here :/2 -
Based on @darksideofyay "poll feature" request I made a simple bot to make them.
Just post this as a comment:
@PollBot Q: <Your question>?
A:
- <Answer 1>
- <Answer 2>
// Up to 10 answers
It will post a comment for each answer, just upvote the one you like (look at the upvotes to see the result of the poll).
P.S. It's not ideal and it's running on a mini PC in my house, so it could fail sometimes. :P34 -
When your Comp Sci teacher goes to stack overflow and looks in the comments for the answer instead of actually looking for the answer...3
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You know what’s more annoying than someone downvoting your answer on Stack Overflow without leaving a comment explaining why?
When it’s your own answer to your own question... -
Trying to find a Stack Overflow question to answer is time consuming. I just want enough points so I can upvote an answer...
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I just noticed that I'm super fucking anxious about whatsapp and such when people take too long to answer.
Although I have to stop looking at my phone every fucking minute (not joking) , people taking 5+ hours to answer is ridiculous too.12 -
When you try to help on Stack Overflow but every fracking question that you have the answer to gets at answer 8.7 milliseconds by Jon Skeets everywhere that monitor the new questions page!
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while writing a software for records compilation for a high school, the principal asked if the software would be able to mark the answer sheets from the students,
I'm taking, non multiple choice answer sheets.
hand written.
how?5 -
Share it with someone. They don't need to answer back.
Just lay down your thought process. I often find the answer reveals itself while trying to explain the problem with someone else.2 -
!dev
Reeeeddit is a strange place. You can be on an advice sub, answer the question and the OP agrees with your answer and people are still gonna downvote it.
What the actual basement dwelling neckbeard virgin fuck is this shit lol9 -
I hate all the idiots who mark completely wrong answers on SO as the accepted best answer. THE ANSWER IS WRONG GENIUS!!1
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dear fucking client, why are you giving me only the "???" as an answer to my well written documentation and explanation about the latest bugfixing.
WHY? What could I possibly get out of this shitty answer? #fml4 -
People seem to like cryptographic puzzles. Well, try this one for size:
b417021dc01b409ad0c21b430a508624
Answer is a sentence in plain english. Space is used, but no punctuation. Post answer to comments. Good luck :D2 -
Sent SO accepted answer to another dev as backup to my argument.
Dev - Did Jon Skeet answer it?
Me - No.
Dev - I don't want to hear it. -
When someone (and this is typically someone non-dev and not a very structured person) says "Can I ask you a question" and, upon an affirmative answer to that, fires away a whole bunch of questions without waiting for an answer to the first of the questions.
Pleeeease! If you expect an answer, ask me one. question. at. a. time. Or write a freaking e-mail.3 -
Started up KiTTY to connect to my virtual test server per usual when I couldn't establish a connection.
Nothing too unusual so I do the typical troubleshooting I make sure host, port and authentication is all correct and it is. So now I open the display for the virtual server and start looking at ip info, host info, checking ports and everything is completely fine.
Now I'm getting frustrated so I start running things like configtest in apache, using systemctl to check the services status, even restarting virtualbox in my windows 10 devpc. Still cannot connect!
I start feeling hopeless and just shut everything down, the whole operating system.
*takes breath*
Computer boots up and I start my usual thing of creating workspaces, opening editors, starting servers, etc.
I open KiTTY again and launch my virtual test server..
konicm8ker@VM-UBUNTUSERVER:~$ _
Somethings you just can't fix without a reboot. -
How about this feature for StackOverflow:
If the questioner checkmarked an answer, but another answer gets 10 times more upvotes than the checkmarked answer, send a notification telling the questioner to re-consider the checkmark.
Wouldn't this bring peace and prosperity to devDom?6 -
import answer from "./knowledge.js"
const topic = 'Vue'
const rant = false
const allowDumbAnswers
const q = 'Why to use only a single Vue instance?'
allowDumbAnswers ? return : answer(q);9 -
One of my pet peeves is coming across a post on stackoverflow with an awesome answer and even a comment from the OP saying this is exactly what I needed but it's not marked as the answer. Really? It's longer to write the comment.1
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I'm still on my answer one question a day mission.
With this time, to fight back with "this doesn't work", I almost create codesandbox for every answer. (Assume there's enough info)
But, my gut tells me I probably gonna loss reputation again.
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What would be your answer to this question? My answer was closing the tab and promising myself to never apply there again.
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Can anybody here tell wtf answer of this question is?
Most of the quizzes in this test are terrible. Answer to some options don't get displayed because it gets parsed by the browser. I think the person who developed this website and questions suck at this.
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TFW you open a StackOverflow question only to find the answer you need in the question itself and not even in a comment or answer.
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The answer to your question isn't going to help if you don't understand the problem - or - the answer.
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When you answer a question on stack overflow and the person who asks it changes the question and (presumably is the one who) downvotes your answer1
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Imagine 100 years from now, what would programming be like?
My answer :
Speaking the commands directly to the computer and hope it runs
Your answer?9 -
Customer QA team insists that they are the gate keepers for Test environment,
"Have to discuss this SQL change Test Manager" - me
.....
doesn't answer mails and refuses to answer phone,
Guess what fuck head,
Im gona thrash the shit out of this Database1 -
When I search desperately for a missing package that prevents me to compile some Python package on an old Freebsd system and turned out the answer in SO was my own answer.
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ROFT: When you know the answer to someone's question on stack overflow but you don't have enough reputation to answer 🤦♂️4
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So... IT was fucking horrific. Just the sight of red and white makes my heart race. (It was a great movie though; if you're into horror I highly recommend watching it)
However, I'm afraid to go to sleep tonight so I'll probably just stay up all night coding and studying for my CSIII exam on Monday.
SERIOUS QUESTION: as developers, do you ever use base conversions or boolean algebra? I'm trying to figure out how what we're learning will actually apply to the real world.4 -
Well, from my pov that's mandatory
Here's the link to original answer :https://quora.com/What-are-the-weir...
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Wondered what that checkmark on a youtube channel means. Googled it. The summarized official answer:
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Have you ever been so frustrated with a problem that you almost posted a question to Stackoverflow.com just to find your answer minutes later?
Which reminds me, I need to comment on that thread where I found my answer. It wasn't entirely correct...4 -
The moment when you get an answer that makes you feel like your question was legitimate at SO but ultimately the answer doesn't really solve your problem....
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When you're at an interview and they give you 5 mins to answer a technical problem and you panic, give an uncertain, semicorrect solution and the minute you walk out you know the best answer. FML.2
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Had a somewhat specific question about a new technology, searched up the answer on Stack Overflow, nothing there except my same question with an unhelpful answer.
Combed through the open source repository, found the answer, created a helpful answer on SO with reference to the source code I got the info from.
Got one upvote :)1 -
Working on an application - everywhere an enum should be is a database table instead.
Me: What happens when someone changes "rejected" to "approved" in your status table?
Me: What happens when you re-seed your database and the indexes for your types are different?
All problems, with no time or scope to fix!
USE A FUCKING ENUM9 -
[ currently smashing my head against a wall for being too lazy to answer a Github response about a difficulty I had, and while I was writing my answer 3 days after, they closed my issue... I'M A MOROOOOOOON ]
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When the analyst (or client) says he couldn't answer your questions because he's working remote... and sending an email on the next day saying that he couldn't find someone who could answer it subject-specific.2
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I went for job interview and they gave me a paper with questions about coding and I have to write the answers in the same paper. Why did they didn't give me a laptop to write the answer?3
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"What is the incentive to build open source software?" How do you answer this?
I love open source, but I can't seem to answer this.7 -
question1: Are you a programmer?
answer: yes
question2: Can you repair my computer or format it?
answer: ...
what would you answer then pls help me?9 -
On every Stackoverflow answer/comment about Twilio Services/Products:
"Twilio developer evangelist here... <Answer>"
Twilio developer evangelist my ass! -
Our engineering turned PM boss is such a micromanager that whenever we answer a phone call from him we answer with our per cent complete status.
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For those who have posted questions on stack overflow, and found their own solution before receiving an answer; do you always go back and answer your own question for others to utilize?1
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What should I do if I can't get a Leetcode answer?
Should I just keep hammering along and stress myself out until I get the answer, or look at the answer and try to learn from that?
I'm trying to find a new job and am pretty shit at algorithms.5 -
Came across this
Is making apps haram?
The answer top answer would surprise you
https://islam.stackexchange.com/que...5 -
Guys, I have a question regarding dependency injection and MvvM on stackoverflow. If all of you can look at it and maybe answer is you know the answer then I would be super gratefull
Http://stackoverflow.com/questions/... -
anyone else having Adventofcode problems? day1 told me the obviously right answer was wrong. after a full day of debugging two obvious lines of code, it finally decided to accept the first answer.
and day two seems to be doing the same. guess I'll just be a day behind then?
anyone else?3 -
!rant
Can anyone point me to some resources about scheduling/planning problems and in general date manipulation in Amswer Set Programming (clingo)? -
TL;DR Jump to the bottom, putting question first seems strange.
I got 2 servers sharing 1 external ip, i use one server for x y z and the other for a b c, so they dont use the same ports.
I got told i would need 1 dedicated ip per server, and i refuse to believe that since everything works fine. However, some things would definitely be alot easier having an ip per server.
So, does anyone have experience with getting an additional ip for your home connection?6 -
I am doing some vue tutorial, then I came across this: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/...
One comment says:
This issue is closed, and ideally, issues are not for support questions, but only for bugs and feature discussions.
Please ask your question on the forum , Stack Overflow or on gitter and are happy to help you out there.
It gets down-votes.
The following comment:
........
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Lastly, I really appreciate the Elixir community's philosophy that poor documentation and unintuitive error messages are considered bugs. -
was submitting college assignment minutes before the deadline, opened laptop and boom!
"Your PC will restart several times during windows update 37% complete"
guess what Windows is not the answer, it is the question "NO" is the answer. -
I am asking here, because even stackoverflow community don't know the answer...
Does Doctrine DBAL support oci variable binding in Oracle or not? I need to know but there are no answer so far...
Hopefully, someone here knows :)1
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