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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by Scoundreller on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:48AM (#48275119)
> Otherwise it would have been a firehose of the same basic questions over and over again.

You’ve just described a large chunk of Reddit.

Their poor internal search doesn’t help.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by BrenBarn on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:23PM (#48284687)
Yeah, to the extent that Reddit is filling the role of StackOverflow it's clearly worse.
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