Comment on I know, I know, but this revision compiles

downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, the knowledge that 6 hours of debugging can save you from 10 long and extenuating minutes of reading the documentation. That one you can only get by fixing the problem.

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  • acwern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Docs can only really help you if your problem is “I have used X from the library Y, yet I do not understand the baseline definition of X sufficiently and this is causing issues”. A lot of problems in practice are much more fundamental than that

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  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You sound like the guy who writes documentation in the form of:

    // functionA = is function that does A

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