Tim Holloway wrote:Without Copy-and-paste from Stack Overflow, probably 90% of modern software development would grind to a halt.
I hope the number is a lot lower than that!
I can't remember the last time I intentionally visited that site. Partly because I kind of dislike the site and how people behave there. Not to mention it's easy to waste a ton of time browsing.
Unless it's some obscure thing or something urgent (then, anything goes), I try to start with the most authoritative sources (Javadoc, library author docs, etc.), and sometimes dependency source code. I realize that's atypical... Meaning the 90% guess could be accurate, but I don't like it.