What is this "Stack Overflow" you speak of?
Oh yes. Now I remember. I used to visit the site every day.
I love helping my fellow developers and answering their questions whenever I can.
My reputation there is 29,020, and I've contributed 645 quality answers.
I used to brag about this.
Now I had to think a bit to remember SO still exists.
My last answer was on May 28, 2021, over five years ago.
Obviously it wasn't LLMs that drove me away. And I'm not sure what it was.
Was it the culture, as others here pointed out? Or did I just get busy with other things?
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Update: Now I think I remember what muted my enthusiasm.
Some of you older programmers may have used jQuery.
There is a common convention to use $ as the first character of a variable name that is a jQuery object:
var $foo = $('#foo');
One of my few claims to fame is that I invented that convention and promoted it on the early jQuery mailing list.
Someone asked about this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/205853/why-would-a-javas...
The top-rated answer, with 1542 votes, is a good summary.
The second answer, with 278 votes, is as irrelevant as an answer can be.
I'm in third place with 71 votes. I gave the story behind the naming convention, because I like people to know the "how and why".
It gets better! This question was marked as a duplicate of another one. That other question has a wild variety of answers, but none that does what I tried to do: explain the reason and background for the convention.
Ah well. It was fun while it lasted.
Oh yes. Now I remember. I used to visit the site every day.
I love helping my fellow developers and answering their questions whenever I can.
My reputation there is 29,020, and I've contributed 645 quality answers.
I used to brag about this.
Now I had to think a bit to remember SO still exists.
My last answer was on May 28, 2021, over five years ago.
Obviously it wasn't LLMs that drove me away. And I'm not sure what it was.
Was it the culture, as others here pointed out? Or did I just get busy with other things?
---
Update: Now I think I remember what muted my enthusiasm.
Some of you older programmers may have used jQuery.
There is a common convention to use $ as the first character of a variable name that is a jQuery object:
One of my few claims to fame is that I invented that convention and promoted it on the early jQuery mailing list.Someone asked about this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/205853/why-would-a-javas...
The top-rated answer, with 1542 votes, is a good summary.
The second answer, with 278 votes, is as irrelevant as an answer can be.
I'm in third place with 71 votes. I gave the story behind the naming convention, because I like people to know the "how and why".
It gets better! This question was marked as a duplicate of another one. That other question has a wild variety of answers, but none that does what I tried to do: explain the reason and background for the convention.
Ah well. It was fun while it lasted.