"Why would anybody want to do A?" asks another commenter with clockwork inevitability, without knowing any of your circumstances or constraints and just assuming you are an idiot.
"It's 2018, nobody uses A," answers another commenter smugly, the first year of his CS degree almost over.
When I'm answering question on StackOverflow I often answer like "I would try to avoid doing A, but here's how I would do it if I had no choice"--at least it's constructive. I don't know about any of you but my entire programming career has been 90% making things work under (apparently) bizarre constraints or combinations of technologies that apparently nobody has ever had to try before, so I have a lot of time and pity for the poor souls asking these kinds of questions.
RedWulfie on March 12nd, 2018 at 16:14 UTC »
Then you try B and it doesn't work
So you search stackoverflow again:
"How do I B?"
"You do C"
"But that doesn't do B" "Yeah nobody uses B"GameNationRDF on March 12nd, 2018 at 16:19 UTC »
sac_boy on March 12nd, 2018 at 17:08 UTC »
"Why would anybody want to do A?" asks another commenter with clockwork inevitability, without knowing any of your circumstances or constraints and just assuming you are an idiot.
"It's 2018, nobody uses A," answers another commenter smugly, the first year of his CS degree almost over.
When I'm answering question on StackOverflow I often answer like "I would try to avoid doing A, but here's how I would do it if I had no choice"--at least it's constructive. I don't know about any of you but my entire programming career has been 90% making things work under (apparently) bizarre constraints or combinations of technologies that apparently nobody has ever had to try before, so I have a lot of time and pity for the poor souls asking these kinds of questions.