Comment on Ask HN: Do you ever go to StackOverflow twice for the same problem?parentComments−zicon35OP6yHave you tried bookmarking it or keeping notes ? I bookmark stuff which I think would be useful but then I dont remember I have the bookmark of it."Every once in a while the page which gives me the answer is something that I wrote" -- Wow.−eesmith6yIf it's code, I make notes in the code as to where the answers came from.If it's build/configuration, I keep a log of the changes I made. Which has proved very handy.But just because it's in my notes, doesn't mean I remember it. I have to know where to look.Yeah, I had a friend of mine point to some code I wrote in a StackOverflow comment. I had no memory of writing it.−zicon35OP6y"I have to know where to look." -> For me personally this is the hard part.−eesmith6yInscribed on the wall over the entrance of what was the first library building at my undergrad: "The half of knowledge is knowing where to find it".
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Have you tried bookmarking it or keeping notes ? I bookmark stuff which I think would be useful but then I dont remember I have the bookmark of it.
"Every once in a while the page which gives me the answer is something that I wrote" -- Wow.
If it's code, I make notes in the code as to where the answers came from.
If it's build/configuration, I keep a log of the changes I made. Which has proved very handy.
But just because it's in my notes, doesn't mean I remember it. I have to know where to look.
Yeah, I had a friend of mine point to some code I wrote in a StackOverflow comment. I had no memory of writing it.
"I have to know where to look." -> For me personally this is the hard part.
Inscribed on the wall over the entrance of what was the first library building at my undergrad: "The half of knowledge is knowing where to find it".