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Am I the only programmer who finds Stack Overflow to be highly overrated? I used it recently for the first time in several years as I was learning a new technology, and the most valuable answers should have just been in the documentation (or maybe they were in the documentation but Stack Overflow covered up the results.) But the majority of the time I find the documentation just significantly better and give up on SO.

To say nothing about how outdated some of the results are. I tried exactly what Joel suggested. I typed "Rich Text Editor" and searched stackoverflow.com. All top three results were at least a decade old (okay, the youngest was like 9 years 7 months, but I'm going to round it up). They were closed, jut clogging up search results with deprecated answers.

In the time before Stack Overflow, I agree there were many good sources online. I also agree that the printed PDFs of sources that some people passed off as books were horrible. But I do remember a lot of very good books at Barnes and Noble.