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How to Stop Sucking at StackOverflow and Start Kicking Ass! James (JD) Long jdlong@gmail.com @cmastication Kathy Sierra: Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood Found StackOverflow in early 2008 Spolsky pointing at the 2009 growth figures Time

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How to Stop Sucking at StackOverflow and Start Kicking Ass!

James (JD) Long jdlong@gmail.com @cmastication

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Kathy Sierra:

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Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood Found StackOverflow in early 2008 Spolsky pointing at the 2009 growth figures

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Time machine back to 2008

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46:10 Joel: “Aw slick!” Jeff: “I totally support this!”

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https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-flash-mobs/

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…

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Flash Mobs

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but where are we now?

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Holy Shit!

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Linear Trend

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Percent Deviation From Trend

(actual - modeled) / modeled

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Average % Deviation By Month WTF? Jay Z’s Birthday Hadley’s Birthday

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How to get answers to your [r] question! How to stop sucking!

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search Google and Stack Overflow
 
 read the R Info tag on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/ tags/r/info there are two R tags on SO: [r] & [r-faq] (as of May 2011)

start with the fundamentals

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nothing on google or SO… let’s write a question

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Empathy is your super power…

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Copy and Paste-able Minimal Example Don’t share your whole function. Make example of the bit that sucks.

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example

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Show what you’ve tried…

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Be clear what you are trying to accomplish

(and don’t terminal dump)

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bring a code problem, not a business problem or a research problem

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Speaking of off topic…

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If all else fails, try kitten GIFs on Twitter…

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Summary

  • Empathy
  • Minimal Examples
  • Simple Copy & Paste-able

Examples

  • Illustrations of what you tried
  • Explanations of desired
  • utcome
  • Kitten GIFs
  • Terminal copy & paste
  • Requiring answerer to parse

your crap

  • Pure opinion answers
  • Asking business or research

questions

Things that kick ass: Things that suck:

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Magic Surprises

(you won’t believe #2!)

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Magic Surprises

(you won’t believe #2!)

  • You’ll solve your own problems when

you build the minimal example

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Magic Surprises

(you won’t believe #2!)

  • You’ll solve your own problems when

you build the minimal example


  • You’ll discover you asked the same

question before

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but I heard that Stack Overflow blows?

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  • antagonistic to new users

  • reign of privileged trolls

  • more bitching about moderators

what’s painful?

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the top [r] answerers are pretty reasonable… if you are giving negative feedback, don’t be a dick … empathy think about the volume of questions… rewrite!


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Code: https://gist.github.com/CerebralMastication/f5408672ac627511399d7a643eb297ef