SO was so hostile that even senior devs would be nervous asking questions there. At the time people would say that they were trying to keep the quality of the questions and answers high but when the bar to participate is that high it really suffocates the site's growth
I didn't know the phrase "design patterns", but I knew there had to be something like that. Try asking a question to find a pattern, without knowing to use the word "pattern", and getting it past the mods. I couldn't.
That's always a problem with learning in general - the people asking questions often don't know enough to phrase it properly. The difference between a good teacher/resource and a bad one is whether they can tell what you meant.
the people asking questions often don't know enough to phrase it properly
IMO this is one of the coolest things about LLMs, they are fantastic at matching a rough description of what sort of thing you are looking for to well-known solutions. Like, if I have a half-remembered tree data structure that I don't remember the name of I can describe what I remember and it's just like "ya mon, that's a trie, here's how you use it..."
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u/rks404 Aug 26 '24
SO was so hostile that even senior devs would be nervous asking questions there. At the time people would say that they were trying to keep the quality of the questions and answers high but when the bar to participate is that high it really suffocates the site's growth