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by jfengel 1803 days ago
The problem is that you need to find it. There are thousands of things you've done those hundreds of times, scattered throughout all the code you've ever written. Going to find it can take as long as deriving the information from scratch -- again.

I often end up solving it by repeating my Google, and frequently the StackOverflow page will still be marked as having been read.