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Worse : You Google a question and realise you yourself asked it many moons ago and it never got answered.
by Underphil 4y ago
Worse : You Google a question and realise you yourself asked it many moons ago and it never got answered.
- 404mm 4y agoWorst: you find your own answer that says: “Nvm, fixed the issue.”
- vivzkestrel 4y agothis is why I have made it a point these days that when I fix an issue, I immediately go to all the forums, subreddits and stackoverflow sites where I posted the question and post the relevant solution. Its a lot of work but totally beats figuring out what you did 6 months later
- hipjiveguy 4y agoI make a habit of turning every question I have, that I don't find an answer to in 30 min, a question AND answer on stackoverflow/stackexchange And many times, even years later, when I google the answer, I google my name, stackoverflow, and the topic, and kapow - answer received :D
- hinkley 4y agoThat’s just karma. I have tried not to do that to myself because so many others have done it to me. Still, sometimes the answer I left is too vague to be practical.
- AceJohnny2 4y agoI have a notesfile on how to fix/debug things. When I started it, I would write things down after I fixed something and figured I'd need to remember it later. Problem was, I would often forget to write things down, or naively think "that was quick to find out, don't need to write it down", which is a classic mistake of confusing post-facto mindset with pre-facto. So now when I wonder how to do a thing, I first write down in my notesfile what my question is, so when I do resolve it I go and write down the answer to satisfy my need for closure.
- SamPatt 4y agoThis is the way. I make a new markdown file for every program / VPS login command (the entire SSH command with custom ports), and really anything which I know I would need to search through bash history down the road to do it again. Those files are sorted into a handful of folders which allow me to quickly find all these programs / commands quickly.
- shriek 4y agoOh man this happened to me last month. I was even wondering how this guy had the exact same issue that I was having and only realized after a while that it was literally me who posted it. I eventually found an answer and decided to post an answer in case future me forgets it again.
- QuercusMax 4y agoI've also had this happen, but never figured out the solution. This is especially frustrating because your question is likely to pop up first in your search results because you probably phrase things the same way even years later!
- sidpatil 4y agoObligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/