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by throawayonthe 30 days ago
getting a wrong answer in a public forum can be great to motivate corrections :p
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I am also going to miss searching for something, finding a stack overflow thread and noticing that I wrote that answer years ago. :)
That was always fun! And a few times, coworkers told me they asked a question there and found that I'd answered it. That was kinda nice.
That was always fun! And a few times, coworkers told me they searched a question there and found that I'd answered it. That was kinda nice.
...or I asked the question (and got an answer) years ago, but forgot because I hadn't worked in that programming language in the interim. (That's my excuse, anyway.)