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Yup, first answer on Stack Overflow sometimes is the most technically correct, often refined to it's smallest elements, but also not nearly as ready to use as the third or fourth.

The third or fourth cover actual use case like solutions, of course that leaves more room to quibble and vote down, but you learn more from it.

It's the difference between answering a trivia question about a car vs actually fixing a car.



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