StackOverflow is starting to suck..

And so is the whole cyberspace of help with technical or programming problems.

Take this example :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35204499/hangfire-get-last-execution-time

The original poster asked a simple question about how to get the last run time of a job in the wonderful tool called Hangfire.

The problem is a challenge, because within the job code, the date is already calculated and saved upon the job. So you can't get the prior run time.

The responder suggested simply decrementing an integer counter for jobs within Hangfire and reading that job's run time. That only works in the case where ONLY ONE job exists in the tool. And nobody is going to use Hangfire to do just one thing, in most cases. That's a heavy way to get something done.

Now I tried to reply to this on StackOverflow, only to be told I don't have enough reputation points.

This is the chicken and egg syndrome big time that the internet is supposed to help stop. Stop denying people opportunity just because they haven't done something before.

The rest of the internet is chock full of crappy answers to this, and other problems in general. Some try to charge for those crappy answers.

For example, this guy is also dead wrong about how this works :

http://www.niceonecode.com/Q-A/DotNet/MVC/HangFire-get-last-and-next-execution-datetime/20439

Thanks