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As a web dev (and not a very good one) I spend a lot of time googling coding problems which normally turn out to either have simple solutions or to be based on stupid mistakes I have made. Either way, googling quickly gives me the feeling that I know A LOT less than others do...

Of course reading youtube comments has the opposite effect on me.

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I've learned that if I can't find the answer to a programming problem that I'm wrestling within 3 Google searches, I'm thinking about the problem completely wrong and need to step back and re-evaluate.

This is also why interviews are a joke when they expect candidates to have full recall without Internet assistance, documentation, syntax checking, or compiler feedback.

I was once given an online assessment test that was supposed to be for language "X". The recruiter accidently gave me the wrong one. At 3 mintues per question I was google racing and compiler testing like mad to answer each question. I passed.

After the mistake she then gave me the "real" test with the correct language. I did not search google (except for one question) or test with a compiler. I failed.

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