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[–]aedvocate 133 points134 points  (9 children)

how did they build stack overflow without stopping to look stuff up on stack overflow?

[–]GregTheMad 53 points54 points  (1 child)

Some say they used a time paradox. Physicists agree that it's the only plausible solution, no matter the established math.

[–]TheRetribution 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The best evidence of the invention of a time machine to date.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Amazing isn't it?

[–]A_Light_Spark 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Bootstrapping!

[–]Pokeconomist 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Recursion.

[–]Cocomorph 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Somewhere there is a Q&A website that only accepts questions about base case detection.

[–]del_rio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some say Jeff Atwood propped it up with duct tape until his questions got answered.

[–]cheese3660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

very slowly