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a year ago by cm0002 to c/programmer_humor

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milkisklim 66 points a year ago

Hey now. Searching stack overflow circia 2011 to 2018 was an Art. You had to know enough to find the correct question that wasn't deleted because a mod thought it was a duplicate of another question

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kautau 21 points a year ago

Also to find the actual correct answer three comments down because the one that was voted highest worked, but was actually a really shit way to do the thing being asked

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milkisklim 12 points a year ago

I often found the correct answers in the comments of an answer

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wise_pancake 5 points a year ago

After a while you got know which stack overflow questions were a waste of time, and you used that knowledge for years.

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Valmond 2 points a year ago

Before that you had to hang out on flipside or other gamedev sites and show your worthiness before begging for information.

I was so proud when they shared the DS hack (basically a homebrew SDK made by trial and error by some people) so that I could make small games on it.

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