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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

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Is Duplicate Questions a Difficult Problem?

Is there a way that stack overflow can help disambiguate ly, separate these duplicate questions, or connect them together? Or is it a totally hopeless, difficult, impossible task? I think it's a very, very hard computer science problem. And partly because people are very good at using completely different words. It always amazed me on psychoflow you'd have two questions that were functionally identical, and one question had like zero words in common with the other question. This happens all the time. People are supergood at this, right? Accidentally, at asking the same thing and in ten, 20 different ways. Ind the other complexities, we want some of those duplicates to

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