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		surgical_fire 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow... The correct way to use StackOverflow was not to ask questions there. You either found your answer coming in from a search engine, or you pretend the site does not even exist. I don't think it was supposed to be sustainable, but oh well.

zahlman 4 months ago [–]

It was explicitly supposed to be a thing that turns out to be inherently unsustainable.

But I'm not sure that Atwood and Spolsky (especially Atwood) realized that nature.

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