Uh, no. If your problem is so trivial that it can easily be answered by SO and then you're done, you're not building anything complicated and in fact it should be easy to build and you shouldn't get any hacker cred. Similarly with how "Googleable" your answer is. This post is on the verge of being in the same category as those lamenting the niceness of Google or an online dictionary because in the old days with physical books they'd frequently stumble on something neat on the way to whatever it was they were looking for in the first place.
I suppose (for a contrived example) back in the day making a POST request from a browser and handling it with PHP/Perl/etc. was a task worthy of hacker cred because there wasn't any documentation on how to do it, whereas now it's example 1.4 on any decent PHP introduction, and it's something that can be easily answered by SO users. Whereas if you're trying to build an FFP Machine, there isn't even a wiki page.
Lastly, you can always force yourself not to use SO. I use SO as if launching a background process--it helps me clarify what my problem is (sometimes I don't even post after that), and after I post I can keep searching/trying instead of "sipping tea" and SO will notify me of any new answers.
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Uh, no. If your problem is so trivial that it can easily be answered by SO and then you're done, you're not building anything complicated and in fact it should be easy to build and you shouldn't get any hacker cred. Similarly with how "Googleable" your answer is. This post is on the verge of being in the same category as those lamenting the niceness of Google or an online dictionary because in the old days with physical books they'd frequently stumble on something neat on the way to whatever it was they were looking for in the first place.
I suppose (for a contrived example) back in the day making a POST request from a browser and handling it with PHP/Perl/etc. was a task worthy of hacker cred because there wasn't any documentation on how to do it, whereas now it's example 1.4 on any decent PHP introduction, and it's something that can be easily answered by SO users. Whereas if you're trying to build an FFP Machine, there isn't even a wiki page.
Lastly, you can always force yourself not to use SO. I use SO as if launching a background process--it helps me clarify what my problem is (sometimes I don't even post after that), and after I post I can keep searching/trying instead of "sipping tea" and SO will notify me of any new answers.