https://xkcd.com/2881/

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After some account issues, we’ve added 6 new people from the beach house rental website support forum.

  • key
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    711 months ago

    I had that once! Googled “how to run X on Y” and got a familiar name on a mailing list. Turns out he already did what I was about to try to do.

    • @Wrench
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      11 months ago

      I’ve run into that where code was twisted in knots, so I went with an intuitive approach, just to run into an error. See ex employee from before my time’s post. Revert, add comment detailing why, with link to post.

      Edit - Also, another coworker reviewing PR with notes commenting “oh yeah, I wasted a day on that too. Good call on the comment and link”

      /eye twitch

    • @toynbee
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      111 months ago

      Nice, you got fortunate!