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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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