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The Cunningham's Law Exploit

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Exploiting the human compulsion to correct others – that's psychological warfare at its finest. Post a wrong answer to your own question and suddenly everyone's a helpful expert. It's like watching moths to a flame, except the flame is someone saying "actually, you should use a ternary operator here" instead of just answering the original question. Cunningham's Law in its natural habitat.

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