You worded that weird. Okay so you have a job that has 100 points and a time of 100 points. So 90 points in both time and job are used up. You now have 10 points of job and time. Are you saying that you use up 9 points of time to complete the last 10 points of job? If you worded it like "the last 10% of the job used up 90% of the remaining time" then mathematically I think I'd make more sense.

That's understandable. I'm not saying that SO will have all the answers your looking for either. Sometimes it can be convenient and sometimes it can be utterly useless but I'd rather have it there then not at all.

Pretty much, but that time and effort being spent on a problem that's already been solved can be spent else where. Now I'm not saying that you should use SO as go to guide for everything but for stuff that's on the tip of your tongue. I saved all of my projects and assignment from my programming classes and just open those whenever something appears fuzzy to me because, to be honest, there's a lot to remember when programming and when you're still learning its nice to get all the help you can.

That too, hopefully that's where the community steps in and tries to correct it

Over ninety percent of the time I return to the code and fix it with what I already knew.

and

And the other ninety percent of the time stack overflow really helps.

adds up to 180% :p

Its the same for when I run into a bug on a computer. I end up finding a forum where someone has already gone through the same issue I'm having and found the solution. It just saves me time and effort to try and find the reason why something isn't working properly.

Kind of, its just easier to use a search engine to find variations of what you're looking for rather than flip through a book that may only have one or two examples.

Even though this is satire I feel that stack overflow doesn't give you all of the answers. You still have to understand the structuring of programming and how to implement code and so forth. Stack overflow is more like a reference guide than a "solve my code" website.