The Ultimate Stack Overflow Hack

Content Cant find an answer Maybe i should on StackOverflow open a new thread "Thats a stupid question" NEVER AGAIN.

Ah, the classic "accidental programming genius" moment. Son spends 8 hours creating a Frankenstein's monster of Stack Overflow snippets, and Dad swoops in with the programming equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" The sheer dumb luck of suggesting an integer instead of float and watching it magically work is the digital version of hitting the TV to fix the reception. The best part? Dad has absolutely no idea why it worked either.

Content I'm trying to generate a random int that is either 0 or 1 in C. Right now, I receive a 0 every time I run this code, and I'm not sure why. What's the problem here? 24 7 include ctime include cstdlib srand(time (0)); int randomval rand() 2; cout randomval endl; C random ctime share improve this question follow edited Dec 7 '11 at 21:23 asked Dec 7 '11 at 21:19 Rich Byden Liatt ness Races in grin begin Rich Byder . 13 344k 63 558 927 8 Answers Active Oldest Votes it is called bad luck. Try it again. 154 share improve this answer follow answered Dec 7 '11 at 21:22 Michael Krelin - hacker 107k 16 175 164

Content stackoverflow engineers after using stackoverflow to fix issues in stackoverflow "Sometimes my genius is..it's almost frightening"

Content 11 83 00:57 Tweet William Chyr WilliamChyr 20h Self-taught programmers: at what point did you feel like you've filled in the knowledge gaps that you know what you're doing? Or does that day never actually come? 78 17 9 107 Barret Vasilchik RagTagBarret Replying to WilliamChyr I am not sure if it ever comes. One day I was checking stack overflow for a solution and I found one. Turns out I was the one who provided the solution... It made me laugh 6:18 AM 16 Feb 18 8 Likes Tweet your reply

Content Lovelv Khai Lovelykoha Stack overflow be like: "Hey, how do I tie my laces?" "You don't need to tie laces, just buy Velcro shoes" "No, I really need help tying my laces" (Mod) "Question has already been answered, topic closed"