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Where do you go to for answers? I hate the over zealous moderators, but it does end up answering a lot of my programming related questions.

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I'm not GP, but I often still go there via Google searches that turn up questions, and then discover that a useful question with a great answer has been closed as off-topic to the programming forum. 90% of the time it seems like a legitimate programming question.

Yes, I turn to google as well. That's what over 30 years of development experience give you: You know how to use google to turn up the correct answers. And as I use Java for a living - there's a great decompiler in my IDE. Use the source, Luke.

By the way, showing a talented beginner where good documentation is - I think that's frequently the best way to help them along.

Most of the time Stack Overflow answers are top of my Google hits.

Google Search is an elegant tool of a more...civilized...age. A long time ago, it used to have more result pages than the first one. (Technically, it still has them - but nobody ever goes there: just click through the first page results, or try something else.)

In other words: just because Google ranks a result best doesn't actually mean it is best for you: I have frequently found the actual result I was looking for two or three result pages down.

Yesterday after I complained about Stackoverflow on IRC, and people on IRC could not help me, someone suggested that I asked on Quora.

I did, and they replied :)

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