Timeline for Why do highly professional developers spend their time answering newbie questions?
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| Dec 4, 2011 at 0:47 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | @Herbert Great example. Before we can close question A as a duplicate of question B, then the answers on question B need to actually answer question A. Closing can always be undone, but I always make sure I apply this rule of thumb before merging two questions. | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 0:05 | comment | added | Herbert | I've noticed there are different kinds of dupes. 1) obvious - where the dupe can be found by searching the title. 2) unintentional dupes - where the asker doesn't realize another question relates to his/her problem. 3) questions that are worded differently (good for search) or contain elements that aren't part of the original. 4) not a real dupe. Example: stackoverflow.com/q/7440810/911182. On the surface, the question seems to be a dupe, but the answer reveals that the problem was a misused operator. Had that been closed as a dupe, the asker wouldn't have gotten a proper answer. | |
| Dec 3, 2011 at 23:45 | comment | added | Roman Byshko | Yes, that was actually my idea, to write nice template once and then just plug in corresponding variables... The point is students won't google, because most of them even do not know that it is called heap corruption. The other point is, I got the feeling, that students already somehow realized that SO is the site where the can get answer for free... and actually very good answer. | |
| Dec 3, 2011 at 23:41 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | @LonelyOne Maybe someone needs to write a good tutorial on heap corruption and get it high Google ranking. :) | |
| Dec 3, 2011 at 23:39 | comment | added | Roman Byshko | They are not real duplicates. Students come with different programs that that (in case of C) almost surely corrupt heap. It is different variable, different function, different assignment, but it almost surely boils down to heap corruption in a most primitive way. | |
| Dec 3, 2011 at 23:34 | history | answered | Bill the LizardMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |