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I have spent multiple hours digging into something, found my own Stack Overflow answer and pasted it back in.
by fredley 5y ago
I have spent multiple hours digging into something, found my own Stack Overflow answer and pasted it back in.
- water8 5y agoWhy did you spend hours digging into something you already knew the answer to?
- rolisz 5y agoThey didn't know it any longer. They are using StackOverflow as a second brain, offloading knowledge to it.
- ralusek 5y agoPensieve.
- daveidol 5y agoKnowing something at some point in the past does not mean you currently remember it!
- Kranar 5y agoBecause "knew" is past tense. There are a lot of things that I once "knew" but no longer "know", and it's nice when that past knowledge is documented somewhere.
- zeta0134 5y agoNot OP, but... more often than I care to admit, past me is perfectly aware of the answer to this problem, but present me has long since forgotten.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoSolving a problem once doesn't guarantee it's added to your knowledge. Learning needs repetition, if you solve that problem once a year, you'll learn it very slowly.
- nmg 5y agoI do this with documents and help articles I've published. "Here, let me show you how to do this." 6 mos later: "How the heck did I do that?... oh yeah. That makes sense, neat."
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoWhat's worse is when you find your own answer and don't even remember writing it!
- ineedasername 5y agoHappens to me with my own code. "What the hell was I thinking?" Isn't uncommon when I find I got a bit too clever on something. Over the years I've learned to be less clever and more literate in my coding style.
- nitrogen 5y agoWorse still is finding entire old projects with your name on them and not remembering them at all.
- gregmac 5y agoI have got the "you can't upvote your own answer" warning several times over the past decade. It's a wierd mix of delight and embarrassment.
- pottertheotter 5y agoI had a similar thing happen after watching a YouTube video a couple weeks ago. I was going to leave a comment and looked through the comments first to see if anyone felt the same as I did. I read a comment that was nearly word for word what I was thinking only to realize it was mine.