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I'm surprised that a developer was able to fix StackOverflow without being able to look up the error message on StackOverflow.
by StevePerkins 10y ago
I'm surprised that a developer was able to fix StackOverflow without being able to look up the error message on StackOverflow.
- gnahckire 10y agohah! The catch 22
- yaakov 10y agoWell, StackOverflow devs are able to cheat and load up the site on their local machine if they want to
- mevile 10y agoI'm not sure I like the idea of being able to connect to a prod db from a dev instance, but whatever floats your boat.
- progval 10y agoThere are public dumps of Stack Overflow's database. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
- flukus 10y agoWho says they have to? The can just restore a recent backup.
- jsmeaton 10y agoI doubt they'd allow that either - but database exports are a thing or they could just query the database or elasticsearch themselves.
- bboreham 10y agoAnyone can download the underlying data and look at it on their local machine. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange