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Content InfoWorld White House urges developers to dump C and C Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory- safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

Content rAskReddit ubobrementizo 6m If Reddit didn't exist, where would you be on the internet right now? 4 5 0 7 , Share SINGLE COMMENT THREAD VIEW ALL Hardrocknerd1 6m Probably on StackOverflow actually getting some programming done Reply Vote

Stack Overflow questions dropping faster than a poorly optimized database query. The graph shows a beautiful downward spiral from peak toxicity in 2014 to near-extinction levels in 2026. Turns out when you spend a decade marking every question as "duplicate" and roasting juniors for not reading the docs, people eventually find other places to ask for help. ChatGPT doesn't tell you your question is off-topic or that you should've Googled it first. The irony? The same community that prided itself on being the programmer's encyclopedia became its own worst enemy. Now the bullies are sitting there refreshing the page, waiting for fresh meat that never arrives.

The mythical "just read the documentation" advice strikes again! Sure, because all documentation is as clear as these LEGO instructions showing you exactly where to connect pieces with big red arrows. Meanwhile, the actual docs we deal with are more like "The function does what it does. See function." Eight years as a tech lead and I've yet to encounter documentation that doesn't require three Stack Overflow tabs and a direct message to the one dev who wrote it (who conveniently left the company three years ago). The real senior dev move? Skimming the docs, then reverse-engineering how it actually works.

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Content Me every time I need to use a regex so I copy it from a conveniently specific StackOverflow post like your funny words magic man