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Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by ryandrake on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:25AM (#38532963)
StackOverflow is a great resource if you want to know how you would have done some programming task in 2009. Their cultural aversion to new/updated content has frozen them in time.
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Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by rqtwteye on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:14PM (#38536348)
Agreed. Certain categories should probably be purged every 5 years or so. In many areas there is no value in learning how things got done years ago. Obviously, there are other areas where the fundamentals haven't changed since the last decades.
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