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Why is this #1 on the front page? And how is it useful? I think a common pitfall for techies is amassing lots of useless knowledge (a habit I have weaned myself off over the last few years).



I kinda feel like useless knowledge is an oxymoron.

If knowledge about our world is a pitfall, then I'm happy to seek out new traps.


Do you know how useless I find knowledge about Rails? Utility is relative, and sometimes things are just interesting.

I don't know why it's #1 though. Maybe pg's skewing the numbers against all the NSA content? Maybe people are just upvoting anything that's not NSA/Snowden/etc?


How did you wean this habit, and has it made things better for you?


German adds mystique.




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