- Choose your area(s) of expertise;
- Read the questions;
- Note the usernames on the most dimwitted ones.
You'll find a very diverse mix in that set of morons - it's not all Bob Showadiwadi from Mumbai, it's just as likely to be Randy Loverod from California. The real problem is that the vast majority of people working in IT are not only pretty useless, they also aren't interested in improving.
The people who post on there and accept a cruddy hack with "That works, kthxbye", yet completely ignore an answer that explains why their approach was wrong in the first place and how to do it correctly, vastly outnumber those who show any evidence of seeking understanding of their actual problem in order to achieve the best solution.
As long as such people are able to find employment, the majority of software will be garbage from start to finish - oops, I mean RUN to STOP.
On the brighter side: There are a good few people on there who are genuinely interested in developing their skills. It's not a coincidence that they tend to ask the most interesting questions
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