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0 pointsmmcdermott2y ago0 comments

I think it's easy to forget that as we get better at programming, we tend to get better at either avoiding problems or finding our own answers in which case SO is also less useful because we've learned to fish.

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hackable_sand2y ago· 2 in thread

I had this realization a few years ago compared to other peoples' general search strategies.

An MIT professor on OCW (intro to machine learning) said something that has stuck with me - in paraphrase: "In order to learn something we must give it a name."

Now I just intuit which search terms work and can scan the results to find leads. A lot of the results and examples take coaxing to work, but sometimes you find that diamond that perfectly addresses your problem.

winterplace2y ago

Which professor?

hackable_sand2y ago

I really wish I could point you to a timestamp. I think it was this series.

https://youtu.be/TjZBTDzGeGg?si=jNbm7K3e--buioPp

cqqxo4zV46cp2y ago

Yep. A decade into my career, the problems I tend to face are often ones that aren’t covered on SO, and probably wouldn’t be “appropriate” for SO, either. Something something ‘opinion-based’.

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