I spent 20 years coding for Microsoft on Windows, NT, OS2 and some apps like Sidewalk and Messenger. I'm retired and am pretty rusty but still enjoy coding. Currently I am CTO of CMZLtd located in the Cayman Islands.
I believe strongly that the value of software is directly related to how easy it is to learn how to use.
For a coder to save himself a week and cost the world a million hours in searching and scratching their heads to use that software is perhaps one of the greatest crimes programmers commit daily against humanity.
StackOverflow ROCKS and is an excellent attempt to help us out of the collateral damage of this common error.