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Forum discussions about Software engineering

Every link here is both a forum discussion and about software engineering.

Hall of Fame: 5
Candidates: 6
Median span: 6.5 yrs
First seen: 2007

Strongest Hall records

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Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

stackoverflow.com 14 submissions · 12 people · 15.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-11 Resurfaced 2021-05-07

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Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

unix.stackexchange.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2024-10-04

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“A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

people.csail.mit.edu 7 submissions · 7 people · 14.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2017-05-01

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Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer

github.com 6 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2023-08-09

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How is GNU `yes` so fast?

www.reddit.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2022-06-04

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Recently resurfaced

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Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

unix.stackexchange.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2024-10-04

1058max pts

Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer

github.com 6 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2023-08-09

1123max pts

How is GNU `yes` so fast?

www.reddit.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2022-06-04

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Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

stackoverflow.com 14 submissions · 12 people · 15.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-11 Resurfaced 2021-05-07

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“A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

people.csail.mit.edu 7 submissions · 7 people · 14.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2017-05-01

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Candidates

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What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011)

stackoverflow.com 22 submissions · 22 people · 16.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-09-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

bugs.chromium.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-05-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

superuser.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-02-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Does memory leak? (1995)

groups.google.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-02-22

Needs:5 submissions

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List of freely available programming books

stackoverflow.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2011-11-13 archived copy

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

askubuntu.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 active years

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