[belovedeagle]

> My problem solving process is typically the same thing I imagine most programmers do.

I'm afraid I may be a victim of Poe's law here, but this attitude is... distressing. It completely discounts the value of problem solving, which, once upon a time, was the entire point of the profession.

[mden]

It does not. It just moves what "the problem" is.

An example of that is the article itself which leverages the gained information from SO to solve the real problem.

Also arcane knowledge is not the same thing as problem solving.

[belovedeagle]

> If not solved, try a different query and repeat.

I'm not sure if you even bothered to read the article... since that was the very next sentence. I, too, wanted to give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume it was mere information gathering, which is a good thing, but the next sentence shows that the intent is to solve the problem from start to finish with Google.

[ekimekim]

"Problem solving" is perhaps the wrong phrase here. It's more like "information gathering", which is an important step in problem solving.