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I always got a chuckle out of the joke that StackOverflow devs must be the best devs because when StackOverflow goes down, they don't have StackOverflow to look
by xingped 3y ago
I always got a chuckle out of the joke that StackOverflow devs must be the best devs because when StackOverflow goes down, they don't have StackOverflow to look at for answers, haha.
- hyperliner 3y agoYou just made me spray my laptop with coffee. Such a good one!
- charcircuit 3y agoThere are mirrors and offline archives of the site.
- telotortium 3y agoThat was also a joke at Google
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoGoogle might make your resume look better, but jokes don't work like that.
- telotortium 3y agoThe joke is not that Google developers are so good. Rather, the code base and infrastructure at Google are not the industry standard, so googling to solve your issues wouldn't help you very much. However, Google does have its own internal search engine, Moma, that fulfills a similar role, and code search is also heavily relied upon as well. Google developers fear the day when both of these could go down.
- digitalsushi 3y agoI believe a coffee maker is humankind's finest engineering, then: A machine that can be used by a person who hasn't had coffee.
- slowmovintarget 3y ago"Those who most need coffee are the least qualified to brew it." -- me, after forgetting to put the pot under the filter when attempting to make coffee in the office.
- bouke 3y agoOr are they at serious risk of not being able to bring it back online again? All the solutions are offline now as well…