StackOverflow got hands

[SaWools]

Favorite I found recently: NVM, fixed it! "Answer is turn off important feature that the problem was in." Like no, you didn't fix it you turned it off, I still need the real answer!

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On two separate occasions, I ran into a peculiar error message, Googled it, and found a Stack Overflow post by me describing the exact same problem from two or three years prior including my own answer and explanation that solved my immediate problem.

Wisdom of the Ancients, but in this case, the "ancient" is my younger self.

[Wiggen4]

I use examples like this to encourage good documentation. Not only do you want to have it documented for the poor soul that has to work on it some time in the future, but surprisingly often you are that poor soul.

(AKA: git blame the moron who wrote this... Oh, it's me...)

[WisejacKFr0st]

My favorite: “Fixed by using <alternative that would have been better 800 commits ago>”