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Are older blogs being regurgitated? In the past days I've read articles that I'm sure are 90+% similar to ones I've read one or two years ago.

I'm on my phone currently so I can't really be bothered to find links to support my case. Mostly curious whether others have got the same feeling.

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Same guy, 8 years ago; http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/03/the_worlds_two...

Not only that, but that guy also linked back to the original and said it was a modification of the previous post.

That guy put the reference to the original far enough down that people who enjoyed the article the first time around may have had a strong enough feeling of deja vu that they stopped reading before reaching it.

I had the same sense of deja vu, I've seen exactly this some years ago. (Though I seem to remember "tmp" being contested as either the second worst or third worst variable.)

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