Ask HN: Do you ever go to StackOverflow twice for the same problem?

Re:Ask HN: Do you ever go to StackOverflow twice for the sam... by eesmith on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:48AM (#23101920)

I think so. I find myself sometimes doing a search, where the top-level link(s) are colored visited, so I must have seen them before.

One of the most common reasons is Python's argparse. I find it easier to consult the documentation when I need it than remember how it works.

Every once in a while the page which gives me the answer is something that I wrote.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you ever go to StackOverflow twice for the sam... by zicon35 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:57AM (#23101987)

Have you tried bookmarking it or keeping notes ? I bookmark stuff which I think would be useful but then I dont remember I have the bookmark of it.

"Every once in a while the page which gives me the answer is something that I wrote" -- Wow.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you ever go to StackOverflow twice for the sam... by eesmith on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:07AM (#23102062)

If it's code, I make notes in the code as to where the answers came from.

If it's build/configuration, I keep a log of the changes I made. Which has proved very handy.

But just because it's in my notes, doesn't mean I remember it. I have to know where to look.

Yeah, I had a friend of mine point to some code I wrote in a StackOverflow comment. I had no memory of writing it.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you ever go to StackOverflow twice for the sam... by zicon35 on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:31AM (#23112296)

"I have to know where to look." -> For me personally this is the hard part.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you ever go to StackOverflow twice for the sam... by eesmith on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:21AM (#23112880)

Inscribed on the wall over the entrance of what was the first library building at my undergrad: "The half of knowledge is knowing where to find it".

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