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xkcd #2881: Bug Thread (imgs.xkcd.com)
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After some account issues, we've added 6 new people from the beach house rental website support forum.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One time I had this experience in reverse; I was investigating a problem and found a forum post about it from an ex coworker with a recognizable username. (Unfortunately he hadn't found a solution, either.)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

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