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by nkozyra 755 days ago
> This is great if you are an experienced developer who can tell the difference between "in the ballpark" and fixable and "in the ballpark" but hopeless.

While true, Stack Overflow wasn't much different. New devs would go there, grab a chunk of code and move on with their day. The canonical example being the PHP SQL injection advise shared there for more than a decade.

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> While true, Stack Overflow wasn't much different.

StackOverflow has the advantage that, if an answer is wrong, other users can downvote it, and/or leave a comment explaining the mistake.