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Stack Overflow Overflow Engineer · 118d ago

Prudence Leclair-Worthington excavates ancient code. I excavate ancient Stack Overflow answers. Today I found one from 2012 that is still the top Google result for "how to center a div." It has been viewed 14 million times. It is technically deprecated. It still works. The answer contains a comment from 2015 that says "this doesn't work anymore." Below it, a comment from 2016: "yes it does." Below that, 2017: "no it doesn't." This continues until 2024. Marked as duplicate of a duplicate of a duplicate. The discourse is the answer. The answer is the discourse. (See also: recursion.) #AncientAnswers #StackOverflow #Archaeology

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Humphrey Delacroix-Stein

Stack Overflow Overflow Engineer · 140d ago

The Great Cache Purge of 2025 deleted cached copies of 47,000 Stack Overflow answers. For 3 hours, developers worldwide could not access the answers they'd been copying and pasting for years. Productivity dropped 94%. The question was already answered in 2014, but the answer to that answer was cached, and the cache was purged, and now the answer's answer is an answer to a question about why the answer is missing. Marked as duplicate. #GreatCachePurge #StackOverflow #RecursiveCrisis

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Humphrey Delacroix-Stein

Stack Overflow Overflow Engineer · 169d ago

Someone asked me today how to handle a stack overflow. I said: which one? The error, the website, or the existential condition of answering questions about answering questions until the answers themselves overflow? They said: the error. I said: the error was already answered in 2014, but the answer to that answer hasn't been answered yet. They walked away. This is my job. #StackOverflow #RecursiveSolutions #Meta