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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for hacking help? by gsiener on Thursday December 11, 2008 @11:20PM (#395342)
PS as a side note, I think an issue with this format that I see on irc is similar to telling a crowd of people "someone, call 911." No one is really compelled to answer if they think someone else will...
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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for hacking help? by sokoloff on Friday December 12, 2008 @09:17PM (#396399)
zephyr -i help

at MIT had almost exactly the opposite problem: people were charged up/competing to be the first one to provide the correct answer. It worked shockingly well, as a consumer and it was fun to kill some time as a supplier of answers. (My time at MIT all pre-dates the interwebs, so I can't directly compare/contrast it to a world with Google as an option.)

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